The Conference Of Birds Quotes & Sayings

The whole idea of wearing clothes is not to look ridiculous. — Brunello Cucinelli

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God. — Leo Tolstoy

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. — Dan Quayle

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not. — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank

Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own, and is capable of anything except inteligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances. — Bonnie Blair

Never cast pearls before swine. — Robert A. Heinlein

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me. — Danielle Panabaker

Door in the Dark:
In going from room to room in the dark,
I reached out blindly to save my face,
But neglected, however lightly, to lace
My fingers and close my arms in an arc.
A slim door got in past my guard,
And hit me a blow in the head so hard
I had my native simile jarred.
So people and things don't pair any more
With what they used to pair with before. — Robert Frost

not really a scholar, not trained to be a university professor. The level of the university had dropped considerably, compared to what I experienced before, in two years of studies. Yet, we had a difficult time with the two new languages and also a course in military preparedness. All the students, men and women, had to learn military tactics and had to train in the fields, to become efficient shots. The training was done out-of-doors, in rain, snow or sleet. At every session, one was given three bullets. If you did not achieve a good score, you got a low grade. Fear of losing the scholarship made me try very hard and I lay so long on the frozen ground or soggy field, in order to do it right. In the end, in May 1941, I got very sick with pleurisy and just barely made it through the exams in June 1941, that fateful month when the Germans attacked. — Pearl Fichman