The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.
Allan Gurganus
FamilyFatherBusinessBirdWorld
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
NatureGodBirdLawSweetGift
I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'
Sharon Kay Penman
BirdTreeRestHelpYouTelevision
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests.
Tim Birkhead
DogBirdLookingEyeKnowSee
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.
Nikos Kazantzakis
LoveGodBirdStruggleTogetherMan
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni
BirdKeyBackChoiceFirstAnything
I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.
Marsha Thomason
BirdQueenThinkVegasYouLook
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
Kirk Hammett
BirdBrotherMeListeningThought
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.
Justin Cartwright
LifeGoodBirdRealReal LifeLord
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann Hesse
BirdWorldEggBornWillWay
My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed.
Eric Stonestreet
BirdTreeUglyMomBirdsYear
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
Ethel Merman
WorkBirdFreeWantOften
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough
EyesBirdBirdsWorldMoreWild
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
Bettie Page
LoveBirdFreeYouHouseSwim
In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.
Jimmy Gomez
WomenBirdTreePeopleMeDecisions
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
FriendshipBirdManNestSpiderWeb
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
BirdParadiseHandOnlyGraspDoes
The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.
Thaksin Shinawatra
BirdSickChickenFluGuyBecause
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
John Burroughs
GrowthGreatBirdWiseFreeColor
I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.
Margarita Levieva
BirdDanceCostumeOnceHad
I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that's not a chicken. I can't remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty.
John Legend
BirdFoodGreenRememberEggPretty
Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
James D. Watson
LifeBirdCatsChanceEnoughLong
I'm sort of a strange bird.
Ann Bancroft
BirdStrangeSort
I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.
Caroll Spinney
BirdSoulFeelKnowOwnBig
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