Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are planning to tap into the polio network to pass on public education measures about bird flu.

I saw the human-animal bond in another way. It's a survival and a sustenance kind of bond - and that bond is going to be disrupted by bird flu.

I saw what happened, yes, and I knew I needed a birdie at the 18th to catch him, but it wasn't to be.

Morgan Pressel

I screwed up in the middle. That's a birdie hole, so I feel like I gave three shots away.

Our goal was that poultry would not get infected by bird flu and we were successful in this.

James Harris

Parent birds normally shade the young during the day,

Test results showed that the patient, who died Friday, had contracted bird flu.

Many countries use vaccines and think the virus is completely exterminated ... but this problem is still in southeast Asia. It's even in migratory birds and they are dying. Why? Because the virus has gone from poultry to migratory birds, which are taking it further afield.

Local tests showed they are negative of bird flu.

Alexander Pope

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Alexander Pope

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

Alexander Pope

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Don DeLillo

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

Douglas Adams

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

e. e. cummings

And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

e. e. cummings

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Douglas Coupland

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

David Archuleta

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

David Attenborough

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

Dave McKean

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Alfred Hitchcock

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Andy Warhol

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Amos Oz

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Anne Stevenson

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Anna Lee

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

Andre Maurois

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

Dick Thompson

The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.

Where you live should not determine how well protected you are from a bird flu or any kind of pandemic.

We can confirm that he died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu.