Bird People

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or people:

    “his head
    May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
    Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
    O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
    Must I endure your amorous cries?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The words of lowly people carry little weight.”
    —Chinese proverb.