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“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.”

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?”

War Eye Walks Fields Broken Bird Green Grass Mourn Larks

Author:Tom Springfield

“Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”

Dream Pain Life Is Dies Evil Happened Broken Cost Bird Your Dreams Hindsight Hold Fast Exact Sciences

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.”

Forget Sky Broken Walking Bird Wings Flying Broken Wings Flying High

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.”

Kind Play Sound Cities Break Style New York Broken Bird Bars Versions Broken Up

Author:Van Morrison

“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

Inspirational Littles Joy Youth Broken Bird Eggs Teens Broken Promises Neverland Youth Life

Author:James M. Barrie

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

Littles Art Joy Youth Broken Bird Eggs Peter Cried Venture

Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

“Without love we all like birds with broken wings.”

Broken Bird Wings Without Love Broken Wings

Author:Mitch Albom

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

Important Actors Land Broken Lovers Bird Lonely California Handsome Eccentric Dean Broken Down Movie Actors

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.”

Feels Said Silence Nice Air Movement Broken Bird Empty Surface Seeds Teeth Grass Pool Nasty Blades Trembling Quiver Distaste

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.”

Broken Pages Bird Rain Wings Pet Torn Maniacs Amanda Broken Wings

Book:Maniac Magee

Source: Maniac Magee