Feathers Quotes - Page 6

• If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

  Lois Duncan

  Past, Years, Bird

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• Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Children, Men, Royalty

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• So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Clouds, Eagles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love Life, Ideas, Meditation

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• We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

  Vaclav Havel

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clever, Men, Wings

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• He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.

  Catherine Fisher

  Beautiful, Night, Men

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.180, Penguin

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• This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Doe, Chance

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

  Thomas Malthus

  Opposites, Scales

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1820). “Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406

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• I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

  John Denver

  Believe, Blood, Dry

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• Birds of a feather really do flock together.

  John C. Maxwell

  Bird, Leader, Together

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You sleep with a dream of summer weather,
  wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain.
  Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass
  and rainy air. The plastic table on the terrace
  has shed three legs on its way to the garden fence.
  The mountains have had the sense to disappear.
  It's the Celtic temperament—wind, then torrents, then remorse.
  Glory rising like a curtain over distant water.
  Old stonehouse, having steered us through the dark,
  docks in a pool of shadow all its own.
  That widening crack in the gloom is like good luck.
  Luck, which neither you nor tomorrow can depend on.

  Anne Stevenson

  Summer, Dream, Rain

  Anne Stevenson, “Drench”

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• Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them. The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

  Joanne Woodward

  Sex, Real, Sleep

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• Man is a biped without feathers.

  Plato

  Men

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• People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

  Richard Benjamin

  People, Bird, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

  Anne Roiphe

  Age, Youth, Fit

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• Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Earth, Way

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• As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

  William James

  Reading, Book, Trying

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• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Wings, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Flower, Passion, Garden

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• I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

  Janelle Monae

  Jewels, Rich, Enjoy

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• Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

  Robert Henri

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

  George Washington

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Feelings, Humanity

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.163, Penguin

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