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Letter "B" » bird
«I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.»
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Animals,
Knowledge
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Keywords:
bars,
beats,
Be Free,
bird,
bosom,
bruised,
bruises,
bruising,
caged,
carol,
carols,
core,
glee,
sends,
sings,
sore,
sorer,
sorest,
wing
«I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .»
«It is the beautiful bird which gets caged»
«God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
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Keywords:
bird,
branch,
branched,
branch out,
finds,
fly,
flying bird,
low,
lowing,
lows,
The Bird
«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
at present,
bird,
decent,
egg,
egged,
egging,
eggs,
egg on,
fly,
flying bird,
go bad,
go on,
hard,
harder,
hatched,
hatches,
hatching,
indefinitely,
in ordinary,
jollier,
jolly,
on sight,
ordinary,
present,
remaining,
sight,
sighting,
The Eggs,
To Fly,
turn,
would-be
«If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.»
«If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come»
«I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bird,
bough,
Dead Things,
drop,
drop dead,
felt,
freezes,
freezing,
froze,
frozen,
saw,
sorrier,
sorriest,
sorry,
sorry for,
thing in itself,
wild
«If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
Anatidae,
aquatic,
aquatic bird,
at least,
bird,
bird of,
consider,
duck,
ducked,
ducking,
family,
family Anatidae,
hands,
looks,
possibility,
quack,
quacks,
The Family
«I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.»