Famous Quotes & Sayings

The patient is a suspected bird flu case. He had a history of contact with live and dead chickens.

Catullus

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Bill Vaughan

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

That would include responding to outbreaks of disease. It doesn't specifically refer to bird flu. The purpose of this plan is to provide an outline of how we proceed. In the past, we never really considered these massive events that could knock down a school system.

The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5. The virus type has to be confirmed in the (European Union) reference lab.

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5.

We have chosen sites and species of birds that we think are the most likely ones that contact birds over in the Russian Siberian side that have the potential to migrate and make contact with birds in North America.

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

With the current resources it cannot be contained. With the right resources in the domestic bird population, it should be a matter of a year to get rid of it.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Kurt Braunohler

I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

Mickey: You just had one of those 'I glued a bird to my head' days.

Migratory birds are the main distributors on the international scale and there is no way to stop them. Locally, migratory fowl and the trade in live and recently dead poultry keep it in circulation, too.

Migratory birds are innocent bystanders. I don't doubt (they're) moving the virus. I just don't think they're the primary movers.

Migratory birds are being blamed, but once poultry has been infected, it can spread from town to town, especially if people buy the infected poultry.

Wild birds seem to be one of the main avian influenza carriers, but more research is urgently needed to fully understand their role in spreading the virus,

WHO has commended our operations (to control bird flu). They have told us the quick response of the Indian government has been highly appreciated.

When the birds realize that they are being chased away every day, they stop coming after a while. They don't want to molt here.

You bring the gun up, and if you see orange, you don't pull the trigger. I guess he got caught up in the frenzy of the birds going up.

Where you live should not determine how well protected you are from a bird flu or any kind of pandemic.

It didn't originate from multiple ships, it originated from one ship. It looks that we may be leaning towards the traditional bilge oils that impacted these birds or impacted these shores.

D. H. Lawrence

I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.

I thought, 'If I could find a book about Iowa, I could kill two birds with one stone.' I'd find something I'd enjoy and that they'd enjoy.

John Daly

I thought I had it but I missed a birdie putt on the 16th and then missed from four feet on 17 and that was the golf tournament. I should have had it won but it's just a lack of confidence in putting. Tiger has won so many golf tournaments I am sure I was feeling a bit more heat than he was but you just hate to lose that way and I know Tiger hates to win that way.

It is bird flu. It is an H5 virus and we're still confirming that it's N1. That will become clear in coming days.

We get very few quail. The last ones we got were domesticated birds that had gotten loose.

We get birds in, eagles that were banded 35 years ago that are shot and taken out of the environment which is very sad.

We forecast that bird flu mutation is possible in the countries where the number of different viruses is high. This group includes the United States.