High Flying Birds

Famous quotes containing the words high, flying and/or birds:

“I laugh at the lore and pride of man
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 4:4.