Virginia Woolf Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Bird Quotes

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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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

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Summer Quotes , Bird Quotes

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eagles 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

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

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

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Bird Quotes , Aviation Quotes

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Nature Quotes , Bird 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

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson 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

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Technology 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

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Byzantium Quotes , Bird 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

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sound Quotes

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Generosity Quotes , Bird Quotes