Upland Game Birds

Famous quotes containing the words upland, game and/or birds:

“A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
—John Major (b. 1943)

“One ought not to have to care
So much as you and I
Care when the birds come round the house
To seem to say good-by;”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)