Thrushes Birds Quotes & Sayings

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. — Elizabeth Goudge

Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes. — Mike Bond

Drinking alcohol is like eating donuts. Having one or two occasionally is not going to hurt you, but having several a day will eventually lead to serious consequences. — Cyndi Turner

When you're cooking with food as alive as this
these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh
you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight. — Michael Pollan

Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes. — Alex Parks

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset. — Georg Trakl

Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it. — Melvyn Douglas

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him? — Aldous Huxley

But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt. — Condoleezza Rice

Diets are a scam. — Michael Moore

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't! — Brian Pinkerton

I'll wait for however long it takes
because I know she's afraid that if she
allows herself to be totally happy, it will
be taken away from her again. She needs
to know that I'm not going anywhere. I can
tell her all I want, but she needs to feel it. — L.M. Trio

The reason can make as much damage as passion. — Alberto Ferreras

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need. — Lee Child

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. — Swami Vivekananda

God teaches those who come to him in another manner without interior speech or action. It takes place with such secrecy that the soul itself does not know it at the time, nor until it sees itself growing in discretion, and in knowledge of how to direct its own and other people's affairs prudently It also understands many things in Holy Scripture that it could not comprehend before, though it knows not whence this knowledge came. I think that God treats these people as we treat thrushes and birds that we teach; but they know they are learning. This way of learning is excellent if free from presumption and combined with faith and right reason. However, there is danger in great unrestraint, for it is hateful that a man should concern himself with what is beyond him. — Francisco De Osuna

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen. — Margaret Atwood

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated. — Ginnifer Goodwin