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«Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.»
«A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Singers and singing | Keywords: answer, bird, has a, sing, sings, song
«Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.»
«Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.»
«A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked?»
«A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: bird, branch, mouse, river, roost
«For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life, Men | Keywords: beast, bird, supreme, triumph, vividly
«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.»
«A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing»
«Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.»