B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.”
Source: The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
“Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!”
“Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur even. They’re so beautiful and nature uses such amazing colors.”
“Birds, unlike us, lack countenance. But they make us smile when they connecting the sky with their dazzling feathers. They amaze us with how their great feathers can find themselves in this pale world. Where the visual of them whispers, "Make your new beginning,beloved.”
“Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”
“Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.”
Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
“Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.”
Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy”
“Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.”
Source: My Man Jeeves
“Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.”
“Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
“Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.”
“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.”
Source: Nobody's Girl: A Novel
“Birdy sang out, “It’s true. She’s a friendly fox.” The deer chimed in, “She’s helped us all in some way.”
Source: Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story
“Birey, televizyondaki Sudan İç Savaşını herhangi bir tuvalet kağıdı reklamıyla aynı duyarsızlıkla izlemektedir. Televizyonu kapattıktan sonra, Sudan’da ki iç savaş devam etse bile, onun için bitmiştir.”
“Bireyin elinden gelen tek şey, taburda bir asker ya da fabrikada yürüyen bantın başında görevli bir işçi gibi, olan bitene ayak uydurmaktır. Edimde bulunabilir, ama bağımsızlık, önemlilik duyguları çekip gitmiştir.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Bireyleşmiş insanın dünyayla ilişkisinin gerçekleşmesi için olası tek bir çözüm, üretken tek bir çözüm vardır: onu ilk bağlarıyla değil, özgür ve bağımsız bir birey olarak dünyayla birleştiren kendiliğinden etkinliği gerçekleştirmek, sevmek, çalışmak ve bütün insanlarla etkin bir dayanışma içinde olmak.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Bireyselciliğe atılmış en büyük tokat felaket ve yıkımlardır.”
“Birfdays was the worst days,
Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh”
“Biri aşkı düştüğü yerden kaldırsın.”
“Biri konuşurken 'Konuşma sırası bana gelince ne söylerim?' diye düşünmek yerine, karşımızdakini hakikaten anlamak istediğimiz için sadece dinlemeye koyulurduk. Yaşam tarzını ve egosunu birbirine dayatmadan birbirini dinlemek isteyen insanlar mümkün olunca; beklentisi olmadan özür dileyenlerimiz de olurdu, özür beklemeden affedenlerimiz de.”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Biri sana aptal dediğinde yüzün öfkeden kırmızı oluyorsa eğer, senin bir yanın buna inanıyor demektir! Bilge bir adama aptal dersen, onun renkleri hiç değişmez!”
“Biri sırf sana iyi davranıyor diye ona iyi insan diyemezsin! İyi olması için herkese iyi davranmalı!”
“Birinden ayrılırken, güneşin dünyadan muhteşem bir zarafetle ayrılması gibi ayrıl!”
“Birine bağlanmaya yeltendiğinde diğer tüm yaşam olasılıklarından vazgeçmesi gerektiğini düşünüp kaçmanın yollarını arıyordu. Aynı kişiyle zenginleşmek ve bir ilişkiyi geliştirmek hakkında hiçbir fikri yoktu.”
Source: Terapi Odasında İyileşen İlişkiler
“Birine güvenmek ayıp değil,
Güvensiz hayat, nasıl hayat!
Bin kere ihanete uğra, ayıp değil,
Be the cure, not cause, of mistrust.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Birine kötülük yapmanın en kolay yolu, onun yeteneklerini ya abartmak ya da küçümsemektir!”
“birini sevmek de işte, kendi kanadından, uçmaya yarayan o tek bir kemiği çıkarıp başkasına vermektir, gönül rızasıyla, gülerek, korkmadan.”
Source: Devir
“Birini çok seversen, ama sahiden seversen, sana ne yapmış olursa olsun, eninde sonunda mutlaka bağışlanırsın.”
Source: Bab-ı Esrar
“Birini çok sevmişsen, -istediğin kadar korkularıyla yüzleşmekten korkmayan biri ol- zamanla en büyük korkun, o insanı kaybetmek oluyor. Korktuğun felaket başına geldiğindeyse, -üçüncü bir gözün açılmış gibi- başka bir insana dönüşüyorsun.”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Birinin yasını tutmak sevgimizin biriyle paylaşabileceğimiz en son kısmıdır. Sevgi ne kadar büyükse yas da o kadar büyüktür.”
“Birisi aniden bir hüzün dalgasına kapılıp nedenini bulmak için aklını zorlarken aslında sebebin, güneşin önüne geçen bulutun güneş ışınlarını engellemesi olduğunu anlayabilir.”
Source: Varolmanın Dayanılmaz Ağırlığı: Aforizmalar
“Birisi seni eleştirdiğinde mutlu ve müteşekkir ol, çünkü sana mesele üzerinde daha kesin ve daha ayrıntılı düşünme fırsatını vermişlerdir!”
“Birmingham has proved that no matter what you're up against, if wave after wave of black people keep coming prepared to go to jail, sooner or later there is such confusion, such social dislocation, that white people in the South are faced with a choice: either integrated restaurants or no restaurants at all, integrated public facilities or none at all. And the South then must make its choice for integration, for it would rather have that than chaos.
This struggle is only beginning in the North, but it will be a bitter struggle. It will be an attack on business, on trade unions, and on the government. The Negro will no longer tolerate a situation where for every white man unemployed there are two or three Negroes unemployed. In the North, Negroes present a growing threat to the social order that, less brutally and more subtly than the South, attempts to keep him "in his place." In response, moderates today warn of the danger of violence and "extremism" but do not attempt to change conditions that brutalize the Negro and breed racial conflict. What is needed is an ongoing massive assault on racist political power and institutions.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“Birth
is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
inner trust.”
“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,
And fathers live transmitted in their sons;
Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,
The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay,
And insect-shoals successive pass away,
Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex
With the fond wish to form a softer sex. ..”
Source: The Temple of Nature
“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.”
“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”
“Birth and death are illusions. There is no beginning and there is no end. Before this life, we were alive in our parents. And before that, we were alive in our grandparents, and our ancestors before that. One thing gets passed on to another, one form changes into another, and just as in death, our energy passes on.”
Source: Aloneness to Oneness: 22 Life Lessons to Change the Way You See the World
“Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.”
“Birth and death are not of the Soul (Atma). The Soul is a permanent element. This birth and death are of the egoism.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Birth and death are really illusions. There really is no beginning and there is no end. Before this life, we were alive in our parents and before that we were alive in our grandparents and our ancestors. One thing gets passed on to another. One form changes to another.”
“Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.”
“Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is connected to a larger cycle which awaits our return. It is all just like breathing. Remove the fear and judgement to recognize the same pattern as a principle everywhere.”