Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Women Quotes, Bird Quotes

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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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

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Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

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

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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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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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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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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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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

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

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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