Quotes About Goldfinches

#1. I loved the shadows from the early morning sun as I'd walk up a vineyard row, breathing deeply at the smell of freshly worked earth, watching the hawks ride the air currents over the vineyard, and the goldfinches, bluebirds, and swallows flutter among the vines.

Susan Sokol Blosser

#2. They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Pablo Picasso

#3. The moral? That life can be a stranger substance than a cliche life, that goldfinches should occasionally do things differently from their parents, and that there are persuasive reasons for calling a loved one Plouplou, Missou, or poor little wolf.

Alain De Botton

#4. But I need to remember that the grief is the settlers' as well. They too will never walk in a tallgrass prairie where sunflowers dance with goldfinches. Their children have also lost the chance to sing at the Maple Dance. They can't drink the water either.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#5. A charm of Goldfinches swooped in and settled on a stand of thistles, pecking at the down. It was a scene Jejeune had seen a thousand times on calendar pages, one of the most picturesque in nature. It still gave him a frisson of delight and he paused for a moment before speaking. p. 147

Steve Burrows

#6. One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

May Sarton

#7. Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Aldous Huxley

#8. Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

John Keats

#9. I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Jim Diamond

#10. When corruptors blame each other, the strongest wins.
Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang.

Toba Beta

#11. Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Marsha Norman

#12. 8:30pm, Exquisite I've got the peaches, you bring the cream. Holy shit was right.

Ella Frank

#13. Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

Jacob Aagaard

#15. Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

William James

#16. It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.

Jason Rekulak

#17. We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

Tim Buckley

#18. I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.

Ellen Gilchrist