Carl Sagan Quotes, Bird Quotes, Aviation Quotes

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

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

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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

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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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Water Quotes , Bird Quotes

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Being Yourself Quotes , Bird 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

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

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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Two Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

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Tags : Alan Coren Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sparrows Quotes

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Bird Quotes , Abyss Quotes

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Bird Quotes , Might Quotes