Famous Quotes & Sayings

It isn't a true Japanese maple if a bird can't fly through it. It's important to keep them open and airy. Some (varieties) require more pruning than others. Some are nicer if left as mounds of leaves, looking more like shrubs.

Chad Campbell

I think that's key in this tournament. A lot of them, you knock it on in two...and I've been able to make birdie on most of them.

I think that wild birds may introduce the virus but it is through man and man's marketing systems (the poultry trade) that the disease spreads. It is also possible that poultry can transmit the virus to wildlife when they share the same ecosystem.

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5NI virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only.

Later in the season, I think it's going be pretty slim pickings. Pheasant season is ... a stocked, put-and-take situation. Once those birds are dead, they're done and there are no native birds to hunt. That's just the way it is.

I was just trying to hang in there and make a birdie because you never know what might happen out there with the wind swirling and the greens firm.

I was just utterly stunned, ... There's literally no bird in the world that does anything that prepares you for it. It's totally unique.

Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.

Patience and putting, I think my putting is working very well today. To birdie the 3 par 3s out of 4 par 3s, I think it was a bonus for me. As you know, par 3 here is tough to play, especially with the wind.

Our main danger is either going to be birds brought in inadvertently on a plane or something like that or perhaps people even smuggling birds in.

People have gone to sleep on HIV. We know more about mad cow disease in England or the bird flu.

Bettie Page

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

Kurt Vonnegut

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

We need to step up control to reduce contact between wild birds and poultry, and also contact between humans and wild birds.

We get very few quail. The last ones we got were domesticated birds that had gotten loose.

We get birds in, eagles that were banded 35 years ago that are shot and taken out of the environment which is very sad.

We forecast that bird flu mutation is possible in the countries where the number of different viruses is high. This group includes the United States.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

Paula Creamer

We had a lot of birdie opportunities but you have to sink the putts and that is where we struggled.

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5. The virus type has to be confirmed in the (European Union) reference lab.

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5.

We have chosen sites and species of birds that we think are the most likely ones that contact birds over in the Russian Siberian side that have the potential to migrate and make contact with birds in North America.

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

With the current resources it cannot be contained. With the right resources in the domestic bird population, it should be a matter of a year to get rid of it.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

We received this confirmation this morning from Atlanta. Now, we have 29 bird flu cases, 21 of them dead.

We received the test results this morning and both victims were positive for bird flu.

We received results from a WHO test this morning that showed he was infected with bird flu.

We're deeply committed to the idea of pluralism, tolerance, peace, co-existence and one God -- the same God. A bird needs two wings to fly: a left wing and a right wing.

We must stress the message that bird flu has been found in wild birds only and not in farm animals.