47 Quotes About Feathers
- Author Thor Hanson
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In a result oriented culture like ours, it is easy to get hung up on endings, on figuring things out and finding precise solutions. But a true fascination continues building with each new piece of information, making new connections, revealing new patterns and opening new perceptions. The exploration of natural miracles is a fundamentally open ended and curiosity driven enterprise. It reminds us that science is not always about the answer, it is about the questions.
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- Author Kirk Wallace Johnson
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I jokingly asked if his friends teased him for being a feather thief, but his face clouded at the word thief.“I try to refrain from certain words,” he said. “Thief is one of them. This is going to sound very strange, but I don’t feel like a thief.
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- Author Woody Allen
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How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.
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- Author Else Holmelund Minarik
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And maybe... you are a little fat bear cub with no wings, and no feathers.
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- Author Callie Hart
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A feather is a miraculous thing. So commonplace and every day, we barely even notice them poking out of our pillows, or caught on a gentle breeze, or bobbing along the surface of a lazy river, caught in the eddies and rushing vortexes as it’s swept downstream. But a feather is a feat of engineering. And this feather, the one that must have been slipped beneath my bedroom door, is a beautiful one to be sure.
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- Author Cass van Krah
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It's not enough to have the feathers. You must dare to fly!
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- Author Cass van Krah
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It's not enough to have the feathers.You must dare to fly!
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- Author Amy Kuivalainen
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You better be able to turn yourself off if you think you’re coming back into my house,” she said. The bird gave her another dubious look before stamping one foot and the flames disappeared leaving long gold and red feathers. “Oh,” Anya said embarrassed. “I suppose you can.
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- Author Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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