Sing Like A Bird Quotes

#1. If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.

Ann Patchett

#2. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.

Elizabeth Goudge

#3. I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

#4. The casket was lined with lovely velvet, which must have felt lovely even to the dead, but the glowing man continued to rip up the casket.

Brad McKinniss

#5. To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Be like a tree, bloom like a flower, sing like a bird, and dance like a peacock.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I want to seize my is. And like a bird I sing hallelujah into the air. And my song belongs to no one. But no passion suffered in pain and love is not followed by an hallelujah.

Clarice Lispector

#8. He raised a brow. 'Petunia, Ms. Lane?'
I scowled. Ass, Barrons.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live.

Eileen Myles

#10. In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

Box Brown

#11. Without fathers you would have no civilization.

Michael Gurian

#12. Love can flow like the river, fly with the bird, sing with the crickets at night. It is in the energy of the river, the flight of the bird, the song from the cricket. There is nowhere where love is not.

Janet G. Nestor

#13. We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

David Byrne

#14. No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

Susan Glaspell

#15. I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

David Almond

#16. Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

E.F. Benson

#17. You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. -Uncle Kracker-

Uncle Kracker

#18. See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing
Keep a-goin'!

Frank Lebby Stanton

#19. Whenever I doubted myself, my dad would say, 'Grab that dream by the hands, Gwennie. Clutch until the knuckles go white.'" "Whose dream?" "It doesn't matter whose dream it is," she said. "Just that it's a dream.

Megan Abbott

#20. When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.

Laura Erickson

#21. When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Morrissey

#22. A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Alain De Botton

#23. For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Tim Holden