#birds

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Browning

#ambitious #anxiety #birds #cage #chain

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

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

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#bee #birds #butcher #got #him

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#birds #except #possess #sang #silent

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#bugs #like #must #taste

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here. ↗

— Morris West

#been #birds #corner #cosmos #creation

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#being #believe #birds #god #grew

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#birds #directors #expression #goes #hire

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#birds #different #entirely #fine #i