Perches Quotes

#1. When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Lynda Obst

#2. 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.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. Regret perches like an umbrella over all of my days.

Jillian Lauren

#4. A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#5. You're eating without conviction, Inspector.' 'It's true. The fact is, I've got something on my mind.' 'The mind should be forgotten when the Lord in His grace puts such perches in front of you,

Andrea Camilleri

#6. Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams.

Jessica Kristie

#7. Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

#8. There are only perches within society, and we can elevate our sights by considering how things might look from those of others.

Yuval Levin

#9. Emily Dickinson once wrote, 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' and she was right, but she forgot to mention that despair is the thing with claws that tears out your heart. Kind of a major oversight there, Em." pg. 25

Suzanne Sullivan

#10. There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#11. I have a talent for hurting things," Jack perches the rifle on his cocked hip, and it's so insufferably arrogant I want to shove him into the ball pit next to us and slash or furiously make out with him. "But we always knew that, didn't we?

Sara Wolf

#12. The autumn air is clear,
The autumn moon is bright.
Fallen leaves gather and scatter,
The jackdaw perches and starts anew.
We think of each other- when will we meet?
This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.

Li Bai

#13. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head -
it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins.
A host of fallen angels perches on each tip,
waiting to be counted.

Wislawa Szymborska

#14. Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Claude Maxwell MacDonald

#15. Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Laozi

#16. Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family.

Erica Jong

#17. In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.

Rick Yancey

#18. Then she turns to Midnight and perches delicately on his lowered back. He rises, arches his neck, and carries Marlena from the big top. The rest of the horses follow, once again grouped by color, crowding each other to stay close to their mistress.

Sara Gruen

#19. At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

Jay Leno

#20. You try your best, or you don't try your best. The mountains don't care.

Maria Semple

#21. Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

Alan Wilson

#22. If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go.

Mark Twain

#23. Even if you have got nothing else left, be proud of your relationship with God.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. There's overwhelming evidence ... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

Mike Pence

#25. A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

George Herbert

#26. The End of the Silk Road By David D. Levine | 10844 words

Anonymous

#27. Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.

Martha Macharia

#28. A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Nick Johnson