Best horse & bird Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.”

Ifs Speak Perfect Secret Existence Dog Return Bird Horse Instinct Bottom Superiors Sensations Sentiments Organs Elephants Brutes Clouded Emanate

Book:Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

“World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.”

World Light Night Cities Fire Sky Car Bird Horse Wings Rounds Flying Snow Flight Wheels Steel Fragments Merry Scarlet Merry Go Round City Lights

Author:Tanith Lee

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.”

Wells Bird Conscience Horse

Book:Selden's table talk

Source: Selden's table talk

“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”

Men Children Women Work Bird Men And Women Treats Horse Dresses Feminist Treatment Sexism Expecting Feeding Ladylike

Book:The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner

Source: The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner

“Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.”

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

“It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.”

Whole Eye Seeing Dog Glory Bird Fairs Horse

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)”

“I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it.”

Thinking World Light Spirit Watches Air This World Bird Horse Flying Bells Falcon Jingles

Author:Hilda Lewis

“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

Brain Fool Bird Horse Liars Thieves Apologizing Umbrella Superlatives This Is Me

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can”

Ifs Knows World Giving May Turns Practice Like You Bird Horse Contact Lions Companionship Whistling

Author:Jean M. Auel

“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”

Want Said Earth House Voice Views Saws Sky Rocks Bird Hundred Horse What You Want Temples Gaps Jail Guests They Said Palaces Files Tanks Riders Carrion

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.”

Lying Mother Born Blood Sea Land Walking Ocean Bird Horse Eggs Veins Womb Placenta

Book:The wars

Source: The wars

“You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.”

Thinking Believe Looks Mean Doe Soul Sometimes Problem Heaven Animal Tree Dog Flower Bird Horse Don't Believe Unfair Theological Nun Parking Cement Baptized Parking Lot

Book:The House of the Scorpion

Source: The House of the Scorpion

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

Trying Reason Happiness Bird Horse Addiction Unhappy Reason Why Hard Times Unhappiness Impress Insperational Loving Life Great Happiness

Author:Dale Carnegie

“The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.”

Earth Feet Sweet Bird Horse Stealing Iron

Author:William Henry Ogilvie

“Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?”

Want Children Doe Dog Bird Horse Pet

Author:Alyssa Milano

“Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.”

World Heart Littles Whole Reading Sun Pieces Wind Paper Bird Mouths Horse Mad Finished Seeds Driven Whole World Ships Evening Thrown Compass Needles Washing Hawks Whining Charades

Author:Louis Aragon

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