Quotes with birds

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Hope My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bob Dylan No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • William Golding Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carrie Fisher People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Cormac McCarthy The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Eric Berne The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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  • Eric Berne The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Biz Stone The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Robert Lynd There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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