Eiseley The Bird Quotes & Sayings

Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star. — Loren Eiseley

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. — Ginny Baird

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. — Jim Talent

Andrea ... you may have had moments of self-doubt, but in the end ... you are where you are. You made the strong choice ... the right choice. Everyone's always so focused on their destination that we forget to appreciate the things we learn along the journey. You did nothing more than have a few bumps along the way. That's all that is. Nothing more. — Sawyer Bennett

The evolutionists, piercing beneath the show of momentary stability, discovered, hidden in rudimentary organs, the discarded rubbish of the past. They detected the reptile under the lifted feathers of the bird, the lost terrestrial limbs dwindling beneath the blubber of the giant cetaceans. They saw life rushing outward from an unknown center, just as today the astronomer senses the galaxies fleeing into the infinity of darkness. As the spinning galactic clouds hurl stars and worlds across the night, so life, equally impelled by the centrifugal powers lurking in the germ cell, scatters the splintered radiance of consciousness and sends it prowling and contending through the thickets of the world. — Loren Eiseley

Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You — George Orwell

But I do love the world, I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world. — Loren Eiseley

His father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began. — Pamela Clare

On the other hand the machine does not bleed, ache, hang for hours in the empty sky in a torment of hope to learn the fate of another machine, nor does it cry out with joy nor dance in the air with the fierce passion of a bird. — Loren Eiseley

Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!"
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, "Why do you look so sad?"
The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?"
The second wave says, "No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean. — Morrie Schwartz.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible. — Anne Bogart

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor?
Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours. — Bill Maher

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective. — Nancy McKeon

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load. — Aimee Mann

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. — Thomas Haden Church

Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills. — Vinayak Shrikhande

All glory to the Adonai! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable. — Loren Eiseley

Follow the trace of time
until the start
collapses with the end
in the space of the heart. — Ivan M. Granger