Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Lydia M. Child

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Reinhard Kurth

Ideally, this would cover all variations on the bird flu virus.

Maurice Sendak

He was the strangest little bird I'd ever seen. He had fluttered into the world of the studios and, could he not be swatted dead, I knew he would manage. I had total faith in him.

St. John

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Huseyin Sahin

He died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

Brad Brownell

He looked like Larry Bird out there for the first five minutes.

Rob Thurman

As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Andre Gide

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Andrew Vachss

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Daniel Grabauskas

We have not been vigilant enough in monitoring fraud in the program. I think it's an important program to continue, to show good faith to our customers, but it's not going to be a giveaway.

Mitt Romney

I do recognize and I feel very comfortable with people taking a good look at how I've lived my life, and obviously my faith is a big part of that.

E. F. Schumacher

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Aarti Sequeira

So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.

Lesley Sheehan

She's such a competitor. (Friday), she lost the first set and I knew that she'd come back. She won the last two sets. She's got a lot of style and she has a lot of shots. She's only a sophomore and we know she has a lot of talent. Now, it's a matter of learning how to play the top players around the country.

Sandra Sanchez

She usually knew what was on the marker.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.