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I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!
It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.
The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.
For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
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.
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
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.
Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.