The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.
I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. “Smoke and fire,” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!” “Oh, no, not the birds!
These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!