#bird

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#available #awareness #bird #fact #first

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace. ↗

— John Murray

#big #bird #college #disgrace #fifteen

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#century #continent #destined #enable #exceeding

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

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bird #enable #facts #fly #man

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#cheese #early #early bird #get #gets

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bird #cellar #choose #depending #food

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