Warblers With Yellow Quotes & Sayings

I thought of many an autumn I had known: Seemly autumns approaching deliberately, with amplitude. I thought of wild asters, Michaelmas daisies, mushrooms, leaves idling down the air, two or three at a time, warblers twittering and glittering in every bush ('Confusing fall warblers,' Peterson calls them, and how right he is): the lingering yellow jackets feeding on broken apples; crickets; amber-dappled light; great geese barking down from the north; the seesaw noise that blue jays seem to make more often in the fall. Hoarfrost in the morning, cold stars at night. But slow; the whole thing coming slowly. The way it should be. — Elizabeth Enright

I can't understand why everyone just doesn't want kindness. Life is painful enough. — Sylvain Reynard

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. — Louis A. Johnson

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. — Jean Genet

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. — Ian Hacking

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated ... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. — Wendell Phillips

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant

Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol. — Cy Wyss

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence. — William Faulkner

How can we aid you with our kindred tears? — William Shakespeare

Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done some brilliant retooling over the ages and could now be found living in the form of orioles in the sycamores across the street. As solutions to the problem of earthly existence, the dinosaurs had been pretty great, but blue-headed vireos and yellow warblers and white-throated sparrows - feather-light, hollow-boned, full of song were even greater. Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. — Jonathan Franzen