Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Alan Coren Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sparrows Quotes

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Effort Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Bird Quotes , Soul Quotes

The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Bird Quotes , Mammals Quotes

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Bird Quotes

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Bird Quotes

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

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

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Wind Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Feet Quotes , Bird Quotes

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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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Bird Quotes

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , House Quotes , Bird Quotes

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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Bird Quotes

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Bird Quotes , Decision Quotes

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

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Tags : Alan Feduccia Quotes , Bird Quotes , Body Quotes

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Bird Quotes , Mind Quotes