Pet Birds

Famous quotes containing the words pet and/or birds:

    “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil’s pet baits. In larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed....”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies.... Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)