Wounded Bird Quotes

#1. Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

Francis Thompson

#2. Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

David James Poissant

#3. Somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with a warmth and sad beauty I'd never noticed before.

Marisha Pessl

#4. Don't the wounded bird still sing?

Sheryl Crow

#5. Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

Jodie Foster

#6. I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.

Tracy Chevalier

#7. The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.

John Shelby Spong

#8. It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

Annie Lennox

#9. It was a chef's knife," I said, holding my hands about a foot apart. "And a very large one."
"That's what she said," Ethan murmured.

Chloe Neill

#10. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.

Kelly Starrett

#11. Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their pupils' progress.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home - these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

Rachel Held Evans

#13. I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

Angelina Grimke

#14. People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

Yuri Kochiyama

#15. To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

Rajneesh

#16. we get to Preston and find that it's depressing

Henry Rollins

#17. soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of his mouth and her lips when they first touched his were tentative.

Bonnie Dee

#18. A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Ridley Scott

#19. We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

Watchman Nee

#20. Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

#21. Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of his wings. They are not shaped like a bird's wings. It's a giant bat-wing shape. My heart speeds up with my need to shout out to him. Could

Susan Ee