Chickadee Quotes

#1. We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown Jr.

#2. I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.

Donald Hall

#3. The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

Jeff Chapman

#4. The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Women can learn a lot about a guy because women, for the most part, want a guy to care about their feelings, to be a guy that is responsible. Women want to attract you, but they want you to know more how they feel. When a guy has a great relationship with a dog, it really says a lot about him.

Cesar Millan

#6. My brain was telling me this was a bad idea and I told my brain to shut the fuck up, because it rarely told me anything helpful.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

Ryan Lilly

#8. Would do anything for five more minutes. Just five. To hold her hand, to tell her I forgive her.

Gena Showalter

#9. Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

Stephen Hawking

#10. You do everything everyone tells you to do because you're afraid that if you say no, they won't like you.

Eliza Gordon

#11. I tried to take
a shortcut
to your heart
instead I got lost
in the wilderness
of my own desire.

Pamela August Russell

#12. I wrote about the Thai sex industry and people ask me how many bar-girls I slept with. I've just completed a short story about a High School shooting but nobody thinks I shot anyone.

Matt Carrell

#13. People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

Mark Haddon