Top 321 Feathers Quotes & Sayings

I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Why am I covered in feathers

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Hope is a thing with feathers

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Feathers predate birds.

We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.

Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mutations that cause teeth and claws to come back to their mouth and limbs. You need to replace the feathers with scales, but there are no feathers on their legs and feet, so you just need to make its whole body like its legs are.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

Man is a biped without feathers.

If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job.