When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face
I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
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.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!
Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me. " "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.
Wherever there are birds, there is hope.
Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird. '
The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye
You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.
Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. . . . Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.
Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear. . . . these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.