Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
VICTOR HUGO Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The bird that soars on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth mo...
JAMES MONTGOMERY What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
BIBLE None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not w...
JOHN LYLY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
ATTICUS POETRY The caged bird is perched upon her grave of fallen dreams; like the shadows of just one more nightma...
JOHN M SHEEHAN I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL Rebecca wears her heart on her face. She has been working on that skill for awhile. She has competed...
CARLA PETERSON She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her...
AKSHAY VASU Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU That was her show there for awhile. I was thinking about giving her a break. She was so hot I couldn...
GERRY ECKENRODE Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE She feels the system has failed her. She lost her daughter in such a horrible way and nobody would d...
IVY REAVES Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
HUBERT MARTIN Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing tha...
J.R. RIM It could totally make her really submissive in the future. She feels like she already has to be arou...
EMILY HUGHES But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
Tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, wit...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She's very disciplined and very organized in the way she works on her golf game and runs her whole l...
LISELOTTE NEUMANN Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.
ADE SANTI She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was ...
KHALED HOSSEINI She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she ...
NIKKI ROWE I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET A woman of faith is a bird soaring freely over a canyon trusting in the wind to lift her wings when ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...
VERONICS ROTH I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn'...
MARIAN KEYES The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ...
AKSHAY VASU Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars.
BIBLE The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build
Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows t...
JULIA HOBAN She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortab...
STEPHANIE BOND ...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...
KATE CHOPIN Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c...
LISA ZARAN Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, becau...
BIBLE The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and wor...
DANNY ELFMAN We discussed it on the flight that, when we get there and get our hands on her, we're gonna be scold...
JODI BEARMAN You can close your eyes and think of England, if you like."
"I've never even been to England," ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Being in her home state, she feels like she has something to prove.
ALI MANN She writes her own music, sings beautifully, she's athletic and has everything going for her.
BRIAN CHALK Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed....
ELLEN KENNEDY ... and her singing. She sings all the time while we're driving.
BILL HARRIS Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them...
BIBLE The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detrac...
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
VICTOR BORGE When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance
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NEIL GAIMAN Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater w...
NORMAN ROCKWELL She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She f...
ROBERT M. DRAKE She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of sa...
JULIA QUINN The best insurance that a girl can be given is a proper education and a steady career. That way she ...
HANADI FALKI A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? ...
ANNE BRONTë Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel u...
LAUREN KATE Finally, she took him in, all wet and sexy beneath her.
Every breath and groan echoed over the ...
LISA GILLIS Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniq...
BIBLE We stood in the sunshine of her being. Through her inexhaustible giving, we learned to give. Through...
YOLANDA KING She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Ambrosia is a terrific player. I really respect coach Judkins' way with her. She has a lot of freedo...
JENN WARDEN It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER It was probably bothering her, ... She was aggravated about what she feels is not a completely accur...
PAUL LEVINSON We don't want to take a chance on her not feeling well and getting out here and not being able to de...
CARL BAKER ..he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL The way she curls in my arms makes me feel like I’m the hero. I like being her hero. I like the wa...
KATIE MCGARRY Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea...
CASSANDRA CLARE There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of h...
LAVERNE ST. GEORGE And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say that she rail; why, then, I'll tell her plain, she ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's a very smart person. She knows her limitations as an individual, and she knows her role on the...
HEATHER STEPHENS Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings
ANTOINE MERIN LEMIERRE There are too many of them." Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod c...
RICK RIORDAN It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social ri...
ERNESTINE ROSE She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I give thee flight without wings.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h...
ANN BRASHARES I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone...
HENRY ROLLINS There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She...
LATIKA TEOTIA Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING [Her death scene, by contrast, has been liberating.] I have on just a very simple smock and it feels...
ANGELA REED She's a good ball player. She put her team on her back and carried them all the way back.
JOHN CHANCELLOR “Tell her she's beautiful, not hot, remind her the good things she's done, not her mistakes, hug h...
ALFRED SANT A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discover...
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