Gail Bird quote: "If George remained healthy we would have stayed in our house until we died. But he is the one who fixed everything, did the yard work. That home has about 10 rooms. I just had to find myself a simpler life."

He was an avid reader, would read a book every two or three days. Then I started to notice the same ...
GAIL BIRD

I thought he would just lose his memory, how hard can it be. But it is impossible to explain to peop...
GAIL BIRD

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is ...
KAI BIRD

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his caree...
KAI BIRD

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese ...
KAI BIRD

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insis...
KAI BIRD

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold W...
KAI BIRD

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilit...
KAI BIRD

Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-Am...
KAI BIRD

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRD

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
LARRY BIRD

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b...
LARRY BIRD

I like being by myself.
LARRY BIRD

I get homesick.
LARRY BIRD

I'm a loner.
LARRY BIRD

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust...
LARRY BIRD

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafin...
LARRY BIRD

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me...
LARRY BIRD

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if so...
LARRY BIRD

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal ...
LARRY BIRD

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they ...
LARRY BIRD

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRD

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w...
LARRY BIRD

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's lik...
LARRY BIRD

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to scho...
LARRY BIRD

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRD

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
LARRY BIRD

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRD

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many s...
ISABELLA BIRD

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of ...
ISABELLA BIRD

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laugh...
ISABELLA BIRD

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate norm...
FORREST BIRD

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
FORREST BIRD

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a ca...
ISABELLA BIRD

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho...
SIMON BIRD

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to ...
LARRY BIRD

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...
LARRY BIRD

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was...
LARRY BIRD

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebo...
LARRY BIRD

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into sk...
LARRY BIRD

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRD

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRD

First master the fundamentals.
LARRY BIRD

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. I...
LARRY BIRD

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRD

I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among...
KAI BIRD

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most...
ANDREW BIRD

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, risin...
ISABELLA BIRD

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end...
LARRY BIRD

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. The...
ANDREW BIRD

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as ...
LARRY BIRD

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have ...
BRAD BIRD

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation...
ANDREW BIRD

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRD

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a g...
ISABELLA BIRD

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in th...
ISABELLA BIRD

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is w...
ISABELLA BIRD

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a ...
ISABELLA BIRD

Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot b...
ISABELLA BIRD

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that'...
ANTONIA BIRD

If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is neve...
SIMON BIRD

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant abou...
ISABELLA BIRD

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
BRAD BIRD

I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD

You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p...
ANDREW BIRD

My shows are planned and scripted only so far as it allows me to lose the sense of where I am and ge...
ANDREW BIRD

[Correlation across replicated environments] adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environ...
ANDREW BIRD

It only takes a little change to make a SAN not work. The problems aren't noticed until the next fai...
ANDREW BIRD

You can't keep putting bodies against it. It's becoming too quick and complex. You have to automate ...
ANDREW BIRD

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
BRAD BIRD

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, an...
ISABELLA BIRD

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a...
BRAD BIRD

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand ...
ANDREW BIRD

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood....
ISABELLA BIRD

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm inter...
BRAD BIRD

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, becaus...
ANDREW BIRD

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived fr...
ISABELLA BIRD

I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I best...
FORREST BIRD

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs,...
ISABELLA BIRD

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
ISABELLA BIRD

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level ...
ISABELLA BIRD

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. I...
LARRY BIRD

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in the...
ISABELLA BIRD

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is p...
ISABELLA BIRD

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to ...
KAI BIRD

I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smell...
KAI BIRD

Bhutan is a beautiful place. High-end tourists love it.
KAI BIRD

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its st...
ISABELLA BIRD

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
BIRD JOHNSON

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
BIRD JOHNSON

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate worl...
BIRD JOHNSON

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
BIRD JOHNSON

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
BIRD JOHNSON

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid
BIRD JOHNSON

[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd...
BIRD JOHNSON

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There...
BIRD JOHNSON

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
BIRD JOHNSON

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance re...
BIRD JOHNSON

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get...
BRAD BIRD

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just tur...
BRAD BIRD

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, beca...
BRAD BIRD

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and...
BRAD BIRD

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now...
BRAD BIRD

For the last 25 miles, the adrenalin was pumping; it was out of sight, ... You know we wanted to be ...
BRAD BIRD

I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people...
BRAD BIRD

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.
BRAD BIRD

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
BRAD BIRD

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be o...
ISABELLA BIRD

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessnes...
ANDREW BIRD

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing somet...
ANDREW BIRD

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of do...
ISABELLA BIRD

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and th...
ISABELLA BIRD

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and i...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them...
ISABELLA BIRD

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so ma...
SIMON BIRD

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because ...
ISABELLA BIRD

A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into ...
LARRY BIRD

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream wa...
LARRY BIRD

You can really credit that to Lauren. Sometimes it just takes one player to set the tone and everybo...
SUE BIRD

This is a women's league. It's important to have coaches like Anne trailblazing away. ... Women are ...
SUE BIRD

We didn't use to be open on Sundays.
TOM BIRD

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so soft...
ISABELLA BIRD

The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and thes...
ISABELLA BIRD

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson,
LARRY BIRD

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from...
ISABELLA BIRD

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.
ISABELLA BIRD

I think he'll make an immediate impact because of the skills that he has.
LARRY BIRD

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust...
LARRY BIRD

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the ...
LARRY BIRD

He's got great length and he's one of the best shooters in the league. He gives us another dimension...
LARRY BIRD

I think what it came down to is that our owner wants to win and, in the end, we did this deal becaus...
LARRY BIRD

Over the last four, five years, you've seen some of the things, and maybe we did bend over too much ...
LARRY BIRD

I never dreamed that it would be like this. We're very disappointed in the fact that we had the guys...
LARRY BIRD

I'm a firm believer you have to be patient in this league. The teams that are patient in trades (hav...
LARRY BIRD

I can't guarantee all our guys are going to be here, but the way we've been talking it seems like it...
LARRY BIRD

I am very happy for DJ, ... As a former teammate and friend, Dennis is a good person and I am sure h...
LARRY BIRD

I am very happy for DJ. As a former teammate and friend, Dennis is a good person and I am sure he wi...
LARRY BIRD

I don't believe that. How can they be affected? It's the same thing every year.
LARRY BIRD

We're glad this is over with. We wanted to be patient with this one because Ronnie is a heck of a pl...
LARRY BIRD

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRD

I think he's the right guy at the right time. Sometimes you need a wake-up call. We've got ours.
LARRY BIRD

If there's a deal out there where we think we can better our team, we will do it.
LARRY BIRD

Any time you deal a player, you would like him to go out of the conference. We're looking at the Wes...
LARRY BIRD

I think enough is enough. I think Ronnie will do fine, but not here.
LARRY BIRD

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If...
LARRY BIRD

It's a very special day for me,
LARRY BIRD

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD

We're still looking and seeing what we can do. We like our team, we're very deep, but we don't like ...
LARRY BIRD

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the ai...
ISABELLA BIRD

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've ...
BRAD BIRD

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the mi...
ISABELLA BIRD

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland spe...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mou...
ISABELLA BIRD

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncr...
ISABELLA BIRD

was a clown. But if it turns out that he was telling the truth, then who else is lying? It's a dark ...
ALAN BIRD

I think when we do the budget, we make a number of assumptions, and that's one of them. We assume th...
GREG BIRD

I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop thei...
SIMON BIRD

I was standing in a crop formation north of Milton. I look up and I see this super-bright light up t...
MIKE BIRD

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among ...
ISABELLA BIRD

If the government does continue with this level of response, I think it will build confidence in the...
BELLA BIRD

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English perso...
ISABELLA BIRD

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandi...
JESSICA BIRD

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, ...
BRAD BIRD

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs ...
ISABELLA BIRD

I've been holding my breath the whole time waiting for the answer to come because I knew it would be...
AMANDA BIRD

Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity wit...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes...
ISABELLA BIRD

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with ...
ANDREW BIRD

It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dep...
WILLIAM BIRD

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
ANDREW BIRD

It's one of the first techniques that they learn to soothe themselves.
JIM BIRD

[Bush] reflects ... an exceptionally good work-life balance at the level he's at. When I see [Bush] ...
JIM BIRD

You definitely can get caught looking and being a spectator. There were just some incredible plays o...
SUE BIRD

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guard...
ROSE BIRD

[But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman wit...
TOM BIRD

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
BRAD BIRD

It's not a matchup between Izzy and Sheryl,
SUE BIRD

We talk about it and we actually did it this time. When a player's out, you have to kind of forget a...
SUE BIRD

I haven't thought about last year at all. We've had to play as the defending champions all year and ...
SUE BIRD

What you gotta think about is what they're saying in their locker room. They need to jump on us. On ...
SUE BIRD

That's a difference maker. She averaged 24 against us this season. She only had 15, but she can erup...
SUE BIRD

It's a different group, (and) something a lot of people didn't think we could do. It's pretty amazin...
SUE BIRD

It's kind of nice to control our own destiny, and then did.
SUE BIRD

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must see...
ISABELLA BIRD

We are going to have to deal with it, we're not there yet. But we do have that restriction and will ...
PAUL BIRD

The talk has been around for years, but that was that was the turning point.
BILL BIRD

We don't have any problem supporting those candidates. We are very happy some stepped up to the plat...
BILL BIRD

The purpose of any school board member is a policy making role, not daily operations. He was not ele...
BILL BIRD

You need a professional in that field to manage and run the organization.
BILL BIRD

Government does not need to get involved in hauling trash. If it turns out to be a good idea, that's...
BILL BIRD

"Suck a dude" ~Flying V
J-BIRD

She's all go. Especially against a team like Sacramento, Betty is just really good at attacking the ...
SUE BIRD

It's definitely a surreal feeling. There are a lot of teams in the WNBA that just said, 'Whew, Seatt...
SUE BIRD

It's comforting to know that they would put their injuries aside, put the pain aside and still want ...
SUE BIRD

If George remained healthy we would have stayed in our house until we died. But he is the one who fixed everything, did the yard work. That home has about 10 rooms. I just had to find myself a simpler life.

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Gail Bird

If George remained healthy we would have stayed in our house until we died. But he is the one who fixed everything, did the yard work. That home has about 10 rooms. I just had to find myself a simpler life.

Gail Bird

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