John Milton Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Bird Quotes

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Cuckoos Quotes

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sparrows Quotes

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Bird Quotes

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Cutting 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

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Bird 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

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Bird Quotes

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Bird Quotes

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Bird Quotes , Tunes 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

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Bird Quotes , Blooming Quotes

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Bird Quotes

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Bird Quotes , Rising Quotes

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

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Tags : Alan Feduccia Quotes , Bird Quotes , Body Quotes

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird 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

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Bird Quotes , Males Quotes