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Birds
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Robert Burton
A bird does not sing because
it has an answer. It sings because
it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
God loved the birds and invented
trees. Man loved the birds and
invented cages.
Jacques Deval
There is nothing in which the birds
differ more from man than the
way in which they can build and yet leave
a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
When birds burp, it must
taste like bugs.
Bill Watterson
God gives every bird its
food, but He does not
throw it into its nest.
J.G. Holland
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if
you can hit 'em, but remember it's
a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee
Use what talents you possess; the woods
would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for
a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden,
and I felt that I was more distinguished by
that circumstance that I should have been
by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in
the hand for a bird in the bush.
Plutarch
A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush.
Alexander Pope
The reason birds can fly and we can't
is simply that they have perfect faith,
for to have faith is to have wings
James Matthew Barrie
The moment a little boy is concerned
with which is a jay and which is a
sparrow, he can no longer see the
birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
Blackbirds are the cellos
of the deep farms
Anne Stevenson
I am a conscientious man, when
I throw rocks at seabirds, I
leave no tern unstoned
Ogden Nash
Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not
unhappy is because they are not trying
to impress other birds and horses.
