My Pet Bird Quotes

#1. Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. You gotta have goals!

Zig Ziglar

#3. Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.

Amadeo Giannini

#4. The southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. "What's he doing?" "I don't know, Scout. We better go home.

Harper Lee

#5. You happened to me," she told him, her voice more fatigued than embittered. "You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life." - Mara Jade

Timothy Zahn

#6. Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Killa Kyleon

#7. A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

J. Edgar Hoover

#8. I'll never love anyone the way I love you, Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

Nancy Willard

#10. Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Jerry Spinelli

#11. Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

J.K. Rowling

#12. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Michael Josephson

#14. The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Arthur Guiterman

#15. My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

Colin Mochrie