Alan Feduccia Quotes, Bird Quotes, Earth Quotes

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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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

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

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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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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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

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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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

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , House Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Bird Quotes

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Writing 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

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

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

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

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Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Baby Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Bird Quotes