Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

James Austin

Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a surplus of those birds to carry over. The fact that there was a shortage of 2-year-olds to hunt last year meant more pressure on the older birds, so that cuts down the carry over on those, too.

Atharva Veda

Learn a lesson from the birds. They feed those who cannot fly far. The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo by scratching it with its beak; they help and serve each other with no thought of reward.

Kent Hall

Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not feed them.

Joan Heller

Many people feed their birds but don't know exactly who is coming to their feeder. This is a good time to find out who these birds are.

John Atkins

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.

Milan Brahmbhatt

So far the impact of bird flu outbreaks has been isolated to the poultry sector and some farm households and has not spilled into the overall economy.

Ann Veneman

So it's very important that we have an education program for families about how to protect children if they have sick birds around their homes.

Jeanne Fair

Minks are susceptible, and of course, pigs will be important, as well. They're sort of a mixing vessel. They have receptors that are similar to birds but also to humans.

Alan Feduccia

The question is, which three? In dinosaurs we know it's the thumb and the next two fingers,

Bernard Marcus

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

Carroll Quigley

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

Bruce Willis

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

Colin Trevorrow

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

Jack Horner

I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.

Deb Caletti

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Ken Ham

We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back.

William Thomas

Even some of the dinosaurs may have gotten involved in some of this. I think it would be quite rare and a very small and insignificant contribution.

Robert T. Bakker

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Chris Stringer

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

Mark Norell

These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.

Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Richard Branson

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.