"You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings."

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Source : Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

Elton John

#Wings Quotes #Bird Quotes #Cages Quotes

“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.”
“But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.”
“[I love] anything chocolate, anytime, anywhere.”
“It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.”
“It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.”
“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”
“I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.”
“For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.”

Source : Katie Ashley (2014). “Music of the Heart”, p.220, Katie Ashley

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