Bird Base

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:

“It is Nature’s own bird which lives on buds and diet-drink.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)