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Letter "B" » birds
«God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.»
«A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.»
Author: James Dent
| About:
Seasons
| Keywords:
birds, blowing, break of day, breeze, breezes, lawn, lawns, lawn mower, mower, mowers, shining, singing, summer, summers, That Summer, The Birds
«Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can't I»
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
| Keywords:
birds, bluebird, bluebirds, flying bird, Over the Rainbow, rainbow, The Rainbow
«How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
behind, birds, came, coming together, dawn, dawned, happen, hill, How does, kiss, lips, melts, quivering, quivers, rose, shapes, sing, snow, snowed, snowing, stark, starkest, summit, summits, the Hill, The Rose, trees, unfolded, unfolds, whiten, whitened, whitens
«Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbered, Barbers, beasts, birds, Jackals
«Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch; so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
afforded, associates, associating, birds, tortoises
«Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, Adam the, ago, Back to Earth, barbecue, barbecued, barbecue sauce, birds, bird of paradise, breeds, centuries, coming back, deserted, Desert Island, Eve, evolved, evolves, evolving, goats, herds, island, islands, Long Island, meat, meats, nowhere, pair, paired, paradise, pigs, plants, poisons, pristine, remind, sailors, sauce, sauces, the island, thorns, visit, visited, voyages
«Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| Keywords:
bird, birds, blues, Blue in, horse, horses, impress, impresses, impressing, In Blue, out of the blue, The Blues, trying, unhappy
«Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
back off, birds, every year, get off the ground, ground, heads, head off, mucked, muck about, nastier, nastiest, nasty, plants, spring
«Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Painting
| Keywords:
attempt, birds, painting, song, Song of the, The Birds, The Song of
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