08.25.06
life quotes
Lead your life so you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the
family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
12.28.05
Birds Quotes
Birds Quotes
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing’d insects of the sky.
- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) US poet and newspaper editor
From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things-the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals - and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery.
- Chief Luther Standing Bear, SIOUX
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) English writer
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
- William Golding (1911-1993) English writer
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Davel
Bird Quotes
Bird Quotes
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- C. Archie Danielson
God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly
- Turkish Proverb
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
- Bob Hope
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.
- Mugsy Peabody
