Monogamous Birds Quotes & Sayings

What's going on in your backyard?" He heard her chair creak. "Mr. Bluebird's nowhere in sight. He must be out hunting for food. Mrs. Bluebird is incubating her eggs." "They're married?" "Of course." "How do you know?" "Because . . . they're, you know, they're having a family." "Did Audubon's publication tell you birds who nest are married?" "I'll have you know, sir, bluebirds mate for life." "They do?" "They do." "Well, then. I stand corrected." Across the room a pair of carved cuckoo birds in an ornate clock poked out to announce the quarter hour. "Are cuckoo birds monogamous?" "Mostly." "In that case, Mr. and Mrs. Cuckoo say hello. — Deeanne Gist

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. — Nursultan Nazarbayev

The idea of Slavic unity, is first of all a Russo-Polish unity — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. — Herman Melville

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

No offense, Sam, but you're going off the road. Off the road! Sam! You're going off the road!"
"No, I'm not; shut up," Sam snapped as he guided the huge truck back onto the road, narrowly avoiding overturning in the ditch.
"This is how I'm going to die," Jack said. "Crammed in like this in a ditch."
"Oh, please," Sam said. "You're strong enough to tear your way out even if we did crash."
"Do me a favor and rescue me, too, — Michael Grant

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. — Natalie Clifford Barney

anyway and have racks of them in the shop. Sammy would help her by pointing her in the right direction for selling her art. Sammy knew all the commercial art — Jennie Jones

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now — Tim Tharp

Know why I plant trees?"
"No."
"I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing up to the sky. — Joan Bauer

I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy. — Ricky Hatton

Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head. — Sabaa Tahir

For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity. — Marcel Proust

In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [ ... ]. — Tina Fey

Choose to live and choose to love;
choose to rise above and give back
what you yourself were given. — Gilgamesh

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. — David Lloyd-Jones