National Bird

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or bird:

    “Just so before we’re international,
    We’re national and act as nationals.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The skreak and skritter of evening gone
    And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,
    The sorrows of sun, too, gone . . . the moon and moon,
    The yellow moon of words about the nightingale
    In measureless measures, not a bird for me....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)