Walt Whitman Quotes, Bird Quotes, Musical Quotes

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Bird Quotes , Tunes Quotes

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Bird Quotes

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Bird Quotes

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Eggs Quotes , Bird Quotes

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Bird Quotes , Natural Quotes

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Bird Quotes , Safe Quotes

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Should Quotes

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Bird Quotes , Merit Quotes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Writing Quotes , Bird Quotes

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

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Tags : Abu Bakr Quotes , Morning Quotes , Bird Quotes

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Bird Quotes

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Bird Quotes , Decision Quotes

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Effort Quotes , Bird Quotes

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Bird Quotes

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Voice Quotes , Bird Quotes

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Hunting Quotes , Bird Quotes