Alan Feduccia Quotes, Bird Quotes, Evolution Quotes

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

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

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Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

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

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

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

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

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

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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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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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

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

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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

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

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

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