#birds

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ↗

— Rebecca West

#birds #cats #did #done #francis

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. ↗

— Amos Oz

#birds #feather #i #many #regard

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#birds #books #fly #hands #high

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression. ↗

— Ted Rall

#expression #eyes #head #look #lot

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#am #birds #close #come #darkness

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make? ↗

— Little Richard

#believe #birds #crazy #god #hear

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#love #stuff #wax

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Browning

#ambitious #anxiety #birds #cage #chain

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#become #birds #body #connection #daily

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#birds #came #home #how #play