Famous Quotes & Sayings

The two patients have been confirmed to be infected with bird flu in accordance with the standards of the World Health Organization.

John James Audubon

The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.

They are not a game bird and they're not on the endangered species list.

The government is making all efforts to combat bird flu, which is a serious epidemic in China.

Greg Davis

We're the three early birds on the staff.

Clement Freud

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

Colonel Sanders

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Cormac McCarthy

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Cliff Martinez

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Michael Graves

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

We understand the stresses on caribou and birds in a much better way than we used to. We can mitigate those disturbances.

When the entire region is affected, how can we say how many birds are hit? We are taking no chances and we will cull all the birds in all the farms.

When the door to the exhibit opened, it was quite something to watch 10 of these spectacular birds waddle down the hall and into their new home.

Finding birds is a critical part of the recovery process and we're hoping for some exciting news.

Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Phillip Thomas

But once they heard there was gas up here, they came Sunday and Monday and we had more hunters. I wish the birds would have been the same way. We had plenty on Saturday but they were scarce the next two days.

We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places where large-scale deaths of birds have taken place.

We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places, where flocks of birds were found dead.

Stuart Appleby

The par-five I made a nice little five-foot birdie putt. That was a sneaky one down the hill. Then I chipped in from over the back of the green on six. It was a very difficult chip and it went in. That was a very fortunate shot there because I really was thinking four would be a good score to walk away with, so three was a bonus.

William Dampier

The petrel is a bird not much unlike a swallow, but smaller, and with a shorter tail. It is all over black, except a white spot on the rump.

David Archuleta

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

David Attenborough

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

Dave McKean

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

We will probably learn a lot about bird migration by discovering where the H5N1 virus crops up.

We've never seen so many outbreaks of the same virus in so many different regions. Our concern obviously is that humans could potentially come into contact with birds infected with H5N1, which would mean populations worldwide are potentially at risk.

We got a lot of rain from the hurricane and started the season off real good, then it moderated and we didn't do as well. But you have to remember that by the time the birds get this far south they have a Ph.D. in survival.

William Cowper

There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow.

There is a better chance of a person winning the national lottery than catching bird flu in the UK today.

John Lennon

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in that position before and decided to just try and make my par at the last and let Thomas try and come at me. Fortunately it worked out.

Wen Jiabao

We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the bird flu virus,

Paula Creamer

We were really hot on the front nine but the back nine - we played it one over - was really frustrating because we gave ourselves a ton of birdie opportunities but couldn't convert.