Alexander Pope Quotes, Bird Quotes, Natural Quotes

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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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

The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Bird Quotes , Mammals Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fighting 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

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Voice Quotes , Bird Quotes

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Wind Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Bird Quotes , Suffering Quotes

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Law Quotes , Bird Quotes

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Bird Quotes

Fantastic shadows of birds

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Bird Quotes , Shadow Quotes