Top 321 Feathers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.
My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.
You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers
Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
I'm very bold and say what I feel. That doesn't mean I ruffle feathers. It means I'm being honest.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.
'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
That tuft of jungle feathers,
That animal eye,
Is just what you say. That savage of fire,
That seed,
Have it your way. The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals.
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.
Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
