Rabindranath Tagore Quotes, Book 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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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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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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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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

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To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Women Quotes , Bird Quotes

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Bird Quotes

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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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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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

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Wise Quotes , Bird 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

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

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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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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Bird Quotes , Musical Quotes