Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
