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Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.
Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.
Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'!
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.
I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.
So what did influence 'Bird Box?' Well, I've had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.
Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.
Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.