Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. Kris Carr
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. Marilyn Monroe
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. Neil Armstrong
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. Oscar Robertson
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy. Jimmy Piersall
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. Dennis Rodman
I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird. Tiffeny Milbrett
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go badC. S. Lewis
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.Jimmy Connors
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. Eric Jerome Dickey
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. Julia Cameron
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down. Max Brooks
Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best. Randy Johnson
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. Ernest Hemingway
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland