Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
Victor Hugo
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VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneat...
VICTOR HUGO Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
VICTOR HUGO No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings
WILLIAM BLAKE Caged Bird
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream ti...
MAYA ANGELOU Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing tha...
J.R. RIM Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Li...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO While the wanton Zephyr sings,
And in the vale perfumes his wings.
JOHN DYER The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and h...
MAYA ANGELOU I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of fl...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON At least the caged bird still sings.
ANDONI GARCIA Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Those who focused on
the shock of shards
as the phoenix bird
burst from his shell
nearly missed the ...
SAIOM SHRIVER A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The lark now leaves his watery nest,
And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.
He takes your window...
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight
DEBBIE CRABTREE I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
MAYA ANGELOU A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU He who sings scares away his woes
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings scares away his woes
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings scares away his woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings frightens away his ills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
UNKNOWN Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings
ANTOINE MERIN LEMIERRE A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
CHINESE PROVERB A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.
UNKNOWN A heart without wings is like a bird without feathers.
SUZY KASSEM a life without dreams, is like a bird without wings
MANSVINI Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,
And gay with gilded wings,
Perchance the patron of his v...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE He who sings, frightens away all his ills.
ANON. In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to b...
CYNTHIA HAND When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
MARY H. WALDRIP He (Hugo) has certainly generated some publicity. He is who he is. He's likable and charismatic.
DEMETRIUS FANNICK I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats h...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The caged bird is perched upon her grave of fallen dreams; like the shadows of just one more nightma...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO he said this turning his strong body to face the beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, astonishing, bew...
J.K. ASHTON I know why the caged bird sings.
MAYA ANGELOU He is opening his eyes. He has purposeful movements. He responds to his family in slight ways. He mo...
DR. JULIAN BAILES He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
TORVALD GAHLIN Don't lose your head," screamed the pheasant. And at the same time his voice broke in a whistling ga...
FELIX SALTEN The air is like a butterfly/ With frail blue wings/ The happy earth looks at the sky/ And sings.
JOYCE KILMER He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird...
JOHN LEWIS Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the arti...
ALMA GLUCK The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS If a spider were to envy a birds flight and start pinning away to be a bird he would find himself bu...
COLLEEN LAUKKA Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
JOHN MUIR It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then ...
C. JOYBELL C. The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.
Hugo?" L...
CASSANDRA CLARE A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
ROBERT BURTON When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?
LIONEL SUGGS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t...
JOHN BURROUGHS He who sings frightens away his ills.
[Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities ...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The heart is like a bird: love as its head and its two wings are hope and fear.
IBN AL-QAYYIM AL-JAWZZIYA If you're not a bird watcher you won't be very excited, though gulls are graceful in flight and stri...
BRYAN PFEIFFER Paul Robinson has not even reached his peak yet. I like Paul. I like the way he goes about his job. ...
DAVID SEAMAN He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
HERBERT GOLD Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
WALTER H. COTTINGHAM Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. ARCHIE DANIELSON Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
SALVADOR DALI Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. ARCHIE DANIELSON Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
SALVADOR DALí Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
SALVADOR DALí I give thee flight without wings.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the
bush.
PLUTARCH Victor really respects the game. He knows that it's a long haul. We always felt like he was going to...
ERIC WEDGE I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO become two wings of the same bird of prey.
PAT BUCHANAN Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved.
TIM MONTGOMERY Clyde is a hard-working young man. He has the will to win. He never wants to lose. Victor settled in...
CHAD JACKSON A traveller without observation is a bird without wings
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings,
Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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