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Saturday, May 18th, 2024
Eve of Pentacost
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Pastoral Resources

Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Birds'

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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Saadi, Iranian Poet
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg, American Poet (1878-1967)
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
James Stephens, Irish Poet (1882-1950)
Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.
Mike Thompson, American Politician (1951-  )
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman (1897-1963)
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal, American Novelist (1925-  )
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist (1823-1913)
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist (1823-1913)
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Rachel Ward, English Actress (1957-  )
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist (1958-  )
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
Morris West, Australian Writer (1916-1999)
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West, Irish Author (1892-1983)
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Gilbert White, English Scientist (1720-1793)
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Larry Wilcox, American Actor (1947-  )
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Henry Williamson, English Author (1895-1977)
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright, American Inventor (1867-1912)
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician (1946-  )
 
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