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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Quote by John Adams about conversation, admiration, children, love

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Quote by Aesop about wisdom

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about good, good luck

There shall be torrential down-pours as you attempt to get to your car; once inside the car, the sky is blue, the birds are chirping and there's a rainbow on the horizon.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, sky

Clay birds launched from a taut spring are going about 60MPH. A driven golf ball travels about 250MPH. Don’t ever bet that you can hit a golf ball with a shot gun before dark unless you really don’t need that shoulder any more.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, spring, dark, need

Never sail the boat where the birds are walking.

Never sail the boat where the birds are walking.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even...

Quote by Edward Coke about recollection, man, smile, sky, bad, old, olderness, heart, mind, rightness

October The Earth is dreaming people and moans snow dogs are barking in our hearts as if the moon... Go your way blue sorrow blue pain these hours are hunchbacked by so many prayers the Earth is dreaming golden big fruits one...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry, moon, earth, solitude, sadness, voice, pain, fall, word, hope

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

Quote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, life

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