Famous quotes containing the words birds and/or include:
“Calico Pie,
The little Birds fly
Down to the calico tree,
Their wings were blue,
And they sang Tilly-loo!
Till away they flew
And they never came back to me!”
—Edward Lear (18121888)
“The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include Capital Lawes providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)