“You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.” PeopleIfsCareFacesCertainFallExampleBirdDon't CareFlyingYour FaceGood ExamplesPersonal ThingsBird Flying Author:George A. Romero
“There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.” CitiesFrontsNew YorkExampleBirdTraditionTrainNew York CityThanksgivingFrozenTurkeysNew YorkersSubwayThanksgiving Turkey Author:David Letterman
“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.” WorldWayLooksDifficultRealizingResultsCommonAirExampleDesignFieldsEvolutionCapableBirdLifestyleFlightFormerBehaveRelatedLatterSevereInsectsCatchingConstraintsAncestryAnatomyResemblanceHawksBiologistHabitatOld WorldVultureTaxonomyStorks Author:Jared Diamond
“Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.” DoeFeminismExampleBirdAngryFadsAngry Birds Author:Bridget Christie
“North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.” SaidBornExampleBirthSingingBirdMiraculousKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanKimKim Il Sung Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.” ThinkingMenExampleBirdFlyingChickensLarks Author:Albert Einstein
“And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.” TogetherExampleBirdBillsFollowingLad Author:Josh Billings