All Quotes
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Emily Dickinson
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.J. R. R. Tolkien
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contendRalph Waldo Emerson,
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.Francis Bacon, 1597-1625
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
