Mark Twain Quotes, Bird Quotes, Feelings 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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Fantastic shadows of birds

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

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Bird Quotes , Novelists Quotes

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

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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Book Quotes , Bird Quotes

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

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

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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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For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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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