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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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.
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Saskya Pandita
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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
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Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
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You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
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Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008

Results from Classic Quotes:

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Jay and the Peacock
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There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
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Nat Burton, White Cliffs of Dover (song, 1941)
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I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Birds of the air will tell of murders past.
I am asham'd to hear such fooleries!
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Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Jew of Malta, Prologue
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), Interview shortly before his death, 1974
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