A Quote by Jacques Deval

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

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Birds Cages God God Love Invented Loved Man Trees

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Jacques Deval
French - Writer
June 27, 1895 - December 19, 1972

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Christian Louboutin

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Noel Fielding

It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Jack Horner

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Hannah Kent

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Dorothy Thompson

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Ralph Steadman

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Dylan Thomas

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Salvador Dali

He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height

Gustave Flaubert

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.

Kerry Kennedy

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

Jimmy Fallon

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.