Quotes About Trapped Birds

#1. At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Vint Cerf

#2. Marie-Laure is glad to hear a smile enter his voice. But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds.

Anthony Doerr

#3. Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

Stephen Kinzer

#6. I see myself as a story teller.

E.L. James

#7. Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.

R.D. Ronald

#8. What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Dean Koontz

#9. Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#10. Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Jose Saramago

#11. You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

Margaret Feinberg

#13. The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

Alex Tabarrok

#14. I never learned to read music.

Norman Spinrad

#15. There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

John Barry

#16. The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

O. Winston Link

#17. I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Betty Cuthbert