It is a foul bird that fills his own nest


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It’s an ill bird that fouls its own nest. -mid 13th
ENGLISH PROVERB
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. JAMES
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
SWEDISH PROVERB
The bird loves her nest.
GEORGE HERBERT
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
AMIT RAY
If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
BOHDI SANDERS
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
One twig at a time. Like a bird making a nest.
CAROL LOVEKIN
By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti, Ghana
AFRICAN PROVERB
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
God creates a worm for every bird - but He does not throw it in the nest.
UNKNOWN
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has f...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God gives every bird its food but he doesn't throw it to its nest.
UNKNOWN
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. HOLLAND
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
If a spider were to envy a birds flight and start pinning away to be a bird he would find himself bu...
COLLEEN LAUKKA
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON
There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's buildi...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit agai...
BIBLE
Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn...
HOSKYNS-ABRAHALL
It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest...
LAUREN OLIVER
He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON
Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little o...
SOPHOCLES
And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH")
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Spec...
JAY INSLEE
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
GEORGE HERBERT
O yes, I am a patriotic Ghanaian. O yes, I am not corrupt. I say 'Yes' to patriotism, and 'No' to br...
RAYMOND OBENG
But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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
And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We knew it was going to be a fight when Marvin got a personal foul. That's a rarity. But he held his...
COREY SIMON
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tr...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But...
JOHN MILTON
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody th...
AI WEIWEI
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things that you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead, Although ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, i...
TERRY PRATCHETT
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR
When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
PHOENIX DESMOND
Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomf...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream ti...
MAYA ANGELOU
Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times....
LAUREN DESTEFANO
You know what that tells me? It tells me they are not ready to fly on their own, not ready to leave ...
GEORGE BARRETT
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves...
NORM COLEMAN
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If a bird stops flying for a while, is it still a bird?
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON
They foul off a lot of his fastballs. That was a lucky bad hop for them.
DUSTY BAKER
Production only fills a void that it has itself created
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
There is no foul play suspected in his death. There's nothing to suggest that it was a suicide at th...
ERIC MESSICK
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
BILL VAUGHAN
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
WALTER SCOTT
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I guess that was his wannabe retaliation. I started laughing and got a (technical foul) for that.
RASHEED WALLACE
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
DIANE SETTERFIELD
Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!"
"You're a bird."
"Now say you're a bird too."
"I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the b...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER
[Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor...
JAY INSLEE
Sometimes if they left the nest, you can put them back in the nest if the nest is still intact or pu...
FRANCIS MOORE
Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents. – Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB
We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.
LED ZEPPELIN
I never thought I had my own style before, until I carved that bird.
BRUCE DIVACCARO
We just need to makes sure that when Frankie is gone, we need the person that fills his spot to brin...
FRANKIE HEJDUK
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES

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