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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

—Joseph Addison

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I know why the caged bird sings.

—Maya Angelou

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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

—Mitchell Burgess

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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

—Mitchell Burgess

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There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

—Nat Burton

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

—Robert Lynd

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

—Rose Kennedy

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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

—Saskya Pandita

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

—Wilbur Wright

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

—William Blake

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

—William Blake

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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

—William Henry Hudson

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