Quotes having the keyword Bird
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
by Roger Tory Peterson (Environmentalist, American , born in 1908) keywords: along, been, before, between, binoculars, bird, birds, bridge, came, consider, myself, observe, primary, shoot, shotgun, stuff, them, watching , way I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
by Jimmy Piersall (Athlete, American , born in 1929) keywords: bank, better, bird, crazy, doing, guys, most, said, than, those , walked For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
by Al Purdy (Poet, Canadian , born in 1918) keywords: alive, beast, bird, flowers, man, marvel, most, perfectly, supreme, triumph, vast , vividly The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Politician, Iranian , born in 1934) keywords: befitting, big, bird, brain, country, greatness, little, seems, states, unfortunately , united I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
by Oscar Robertson (Athlete, American , born in 1938) keywords: being, bigger, bird, boston, championship, johnson, lakers, larry, lot, magic, nature, over, same, team, teams, than, thing, think, two , years I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
by Dennis Rodman (Athlete, American , born in 1961) keywords: bird, due, game, give, got, great, his, knew, larry, player , smart I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
by Franklin D. Roosevelt (President, American , born in 1882) keywords: bad, bird, consider, early, enough, good, luck, much, think, too , worm I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.
by Richie Sambora (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: any, anyway, because, bird, cliff, fly, grow, how, humans, impossible, jersey, jump, kind, kurt, needs, new, nobody, off, show, some, them, want, way, which, wings , would The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.
by Thaksin Shinawatra (Politician, Thai , born in 1949) keywords: ate, because, bird, chicken, flu, guy, infected, sick, slaughtered, then , took Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
by Sharon Tate (Actor, American , born in 1943) keywords: becomes, bird, even, everything, flower, ocean, prey, realistic, seeks, some, sort, ugliness, ugly, violent , wilts Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
by Ivan Turgenev (Novelist, Russian , born in 1818) keywords: bird, does, even, flies, happiest, man, notice, passes, slowly, snail, sometimes, swiftly, time , whether Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
by Ivan Turgenev (Novelist, Russian , born in 1818) keywords: beings, bird, flies, generally, happy, human, known, notice, particularly, passing, quickly, slowly, sometimes, time, well, whether , worm The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
by William John Wills (Scientist, English , born in 1834) keywords: beautiful, bird, bronze, colour, delicate, green, here, marked, neck, pigeon, pink, purple, tinged , wings We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
by Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Politician, Russian , born in 1946) keywords: bird, birds, field, force, government, men, migration, migratory, must, our, shoot, stay, stop, troops , where
