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.

Alexandra Adornetto

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

Denis Diderot

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Hebrew Proverb

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Abdul Kalam

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Beth Lowery

She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.

Aberjhani

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.