Best empty & bird Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.”

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Made Bigs Eye Stuff Tree Singing Bird Empty Clock Staring Halls Pens Shore Tides Blank Traffic Rotten Ornaments Measuring Pavement Railway

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”

“Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!”

Nice Bird Empty Cages Bird Cage

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide.”

Ifs Bigs Morning Ought Bird Empty Hungry Rely

Author:Muhammad

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.”

Men Bird Empty Lure Canterbury Canterbury Tales

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living room. They were like busy little brainless birds, fluttering in and out of their nest at all hours of the day or night, so involved in the pleasure of nest building that they hadn’t noticed that it had been empty for years.”

Years Littles Night Parent Hours Pleasure Rooms Grace Movement Building Arms Listening Involved Mets Bird Empty Busy Nests Living Room Fluttering Brainless

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.”

Wells Might Today Felt Perspective Bird Empty Satisfaction Cruelty Belly

Author:John Flanagan

“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

“I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Asks Water Break Fire Sea Bird Shadow Rain Empty Rose Mere Can Not Quench Larks Love Rain Sea Birds

Book:The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

Dream Saws Unique Bird Empty Cages

Author:Anais Nin

“...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?”

Ifs Courses Animal Talking Creatures Waste Bird Empty Woods Noise Conclusion What If Mice Uncles Insects Impossibility Wild Animal Empty Places

Author:David Eddings

“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Ifs Writing Years Running House Hurt Rooms Laughing Air Bed Clothes Laughter Bird Empty Letters Filled Afternoon Mary Embarrassed Feathers Hurt Me Small Rooms Empty Houses Schoolmates

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.”

Lasts Heaven White Darkness Pure Bird Empty Destruction Wings Bones Supreme Hinduism Hunters Prey Nests Tents Swans Shiva

Author:Robinson Jeffers

“He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.”

Way Persons Hard Path Sky Bird Empty Release Buddhist Dwelling Dwelling Place

Author:Gautama Buddha

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