William Wordsworth Quotes, Voice Quotes, Bird Quotes

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Bird Quotes

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Feelings Quotes

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Bird Quotes , Doe Quotes

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

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

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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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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Son Quotes , Bird Quotes

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Phoenix Quotes , Bird Quotes

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Bird 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

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Two Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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

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

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Cuckoos 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

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Men Quotes , Bird Quotes