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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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

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Should Quotes

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Bird Quotes

I don't look like no kiwi bird

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Bird Quotes , Looks 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

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 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

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

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Bird Quotes , Tunes Quotes

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

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Bird Quotes , Doe 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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Tags : Alan Feduccia Quotes , Bird Quotes , Evolution 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

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

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Two Quotes , Bird Quotes

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , Bird Quotes