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.