Birders Digest Quotes & Sayings

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. — Douglas Coupland

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. — Martin Luther

It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender identity but gender perception. Some friends and acquaintances who have experienced harassment do not, in fact, identify as women; they were perceived as women. As I sought support, the key issue was not their gender identity, but the gender signifiers that led them to be perceived as women. If we don't admit that sexual harassment is a gendered experience, we can never shed light on the sexism implicit in many cases of harassment. However, in addressing these sorts of gendered experiences, we may find that gender identity is not the most useful category. — Kate Bornstein

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every morning she pulled a delicate cup from its brass hook and filled it, hoping that it would be dark and deep and secret as a forest, and each morning it cooled too fast, had too much milk, stained the cup, made her nervous. — Catherynne M Valente

But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, to know they are there. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you. — Pete Holmes

I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored. — Isabella Rossellini

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness. — Henna Inam

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem. — James Cromwell

You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man. — Lysander Spooner

Allow yourself to become aware of the nonphysical reality that you are a part of. Reach out to the angels or occupants of this higher invisible plane. Know that you can access guidance from those who've lived here before. — Wayne W. Dyer