National Bird

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or bird:

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)

“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
I’d liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)