Famous quotes containing the words east, birds, head and/or languages:
“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“So near to paradise all pairing ends:
Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,
Content with bud-inspecting. They presume
To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There’s nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)