Mark Twain Quotes, Bird Quotes, Cuckoos 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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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Bird Quotes

I don't look like no kiwi bird

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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Law Quotes , Bird 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

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

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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

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

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

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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