"Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes."

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Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.26, Courier Corporation

William Bartram

#Animal Quotes #Bird Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“All my life Iâ€™ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasnâ€™t funny”
“So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.”
“Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.”

Source : Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.91, Rowman & Littlefield
“As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.”
“Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.”

Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.”

Source : "Dangerous Liaisons". www.imdb.com. 1988.
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”

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