Famous Quotes & Sayings

More people are getting curious about bird flu.

Now that we have evidence of H5N1 in Europe, we need to look at the potential for infected migratory birds to come down from northern Europe.

Now that we are past (Hurricanes) Katrina and Wilma and bird flu, the focus is back on a potential nuclear event.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Obviously, the scores are real low. And the good news for me is I have to go out and play a really good round tomorrow. There's no holding on here. It's go out and be aggressive, stick to the game plan, give myself as many birdie opportunities as I can and hopefully I can convert them.

Dizzy Gillespie

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

We need to make some birdies today. Our birdie conversion rate was not very high.

Mark Calcavecchia

Somebody is going to have to find out when the last time somebody won a tournament making one birdie on the weekend. That may have never happened before in the history of golf.

Some birds might eat these in duress, but cheap seed products usually languish on the ground and become moldy.

Some birds may not be in a good enough condition to lay eggs now because the site is too dry.

Since different kinds of wild birds and chickens have this virus, we can be quite sure that this virus is endemic in our birds.

Six months ago, we alerted the international community to the risk of bird flu reaching Africa. Now we have to say that there is a risk for Europe in the spring.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

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.

Brian Lamb

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Archibald MacLeish

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

Barbara Kingsolver

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

This project has become a major source of scientific information about North American bird populations. It is a classic example of the vital role citizens and the Internet now play in understanding our planet.

James Barrie

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

She's playing with a heart full of love for her mom. The kid's got this in her, but I think this is more about God doing something for our lives right now. We walk out of our house this morning and see a rainbow. Then a birdie on the first hole. Come on. There's something else going on here.

Dean Young

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Dieter Rams

I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.

Eduardo Galeano

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

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

To birdie the three par-three holes on this course is like making a hole-in-one. The par threes here are tough with the wind blowing.

To birdie the three par-3s on this course is like making a hole-in-one. The par-3s here are tough with the wind blowing.