A Quote by John James Audubon

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

John James Audubon

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John James Audubon
American - Scientist
April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

John James Audubon

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

Chris Cleave

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

Dylan Thomas

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.

David Attenborough

My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

Karan Johar

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

George A. Romero

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Ernest Hemingway

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

Lewis Carroll

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Bertrand Russell

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Mary Russell Mitford

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

Christopher Robin Milne

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .

James Madison

I have seldom been described as shy.

Nicholas Sparks

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Blaise Pascal

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

Paul Celan

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

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