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Famous quotes containing the word bird:

“I’ll be a new bird with the head of an ass,
Two pigs’ feet, two men’s feet, and two of a hen”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

“With a broad shoehorn
I am unstuffing a big bird in this dream
Msomebody else’s holiday feast—
and repacking the crop of my own,
knowing it will burst with such
onion, oyster, savory bread crust.”
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)

“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)