#bird

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beneath #bird #boughs #feels #flight

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

— Arthur Miller

#birds #came #home #how #play

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#bill #birds #children #cotton #day

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#best #bird #energy #game #gretzky

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#after #birds #delight #feel #free

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#bye #dancing #i #little #me