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  • Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

    Lovely   Robins   World  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS
  • In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

    Reality   Bird   Mouths  
    Song: No Respect
  • A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

    Eye   Long   Bird  
  • Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

    Tree   Woodpeckers   Dull  
  • It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

  • Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.

    Beaks   Said  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

  • On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.

    David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.54, CUP Archive
  • Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

    Love   Rose   Bird  
    Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.34, Northwestern University Press
  • That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

    Suicide   Octopus   Beaks  
  • I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

  • I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

    Love You   Past   Guy  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. May 1994.
  • The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

    Hawks   Cry   Beaks  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks
  • When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

    Hope   Lying   Blue  
    Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
  • Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

    Cutting   Night   Hands  
    Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.16, Penguin
  • I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.

    Museums   Profound   Bird  
    May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”
  • God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

    God   Stars   Night  
    Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.292, Stanford University Press
  • People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

    People   Lines   Hens  
  • It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

    Fear   Heart   Night  
    Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”
  • Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

    Bird   Fool   Easy  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Despair”, p.104, Penguin UK
  • Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

    Kissing   Beaks   Falcon  
  • As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.

  • On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

    Eagles   Tree   Solitude  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.133, Penguin
  • A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.

    Dream   Song   Dust  
    Marcel Proust, Joachim Neugroschel, Roger Shattuck (2003). “The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust”, p.127, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.

    Nice   Winter   Wind  
    Shel Silverstein, “Weird-Bird”
  • It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

  • The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

    Wall   Ivy   Lovely  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin
  • Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.

    Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

    Fashion   Animal   Men  
  • It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

    Heart   Men   Fire  
    Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”
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