104 quotes found
“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)Whispering to myself With every step I take,Trying out names, for I know There is something yet to be called ..I know it, something up ahead Just around the bendOr...”
“I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
“Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of ech...”
“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
“Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
“London is a roost for every bird.”
“Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the ma...”
“Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
“Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.”
“The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give...”
“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being j...”
