(691 quotes found)
“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 just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S. Lewis
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
“The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…”
Anais Nin
“My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”
Dr. Seuss
“It is the beautiful bird which gets caged”
Chinese Proverbs
“Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off”
African Proverb
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
William Blake
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