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- Live always in the best company when you read.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- 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 (1910 - 1970)
- God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
- 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 (1879 - 1949), The Blue Lion and Other Essays
- The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry, Flight of White Crows
- Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
- I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
- Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
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