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

—Henry Van Dyke

More quotations from Henry Van Dyke

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

—Henry Van Dyke

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

—Henry Van Dyke

More quotations tagged with “birds”

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

—Emily Dickinson

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

—Chinese proverb

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

—Charles Lindbergh

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

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