Ramakrishna Quotes, Water Quotes, Bird Quotes

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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

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Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

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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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To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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

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

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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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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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

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

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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

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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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