Famous quotes containing the words study and/or bird:
“To study the stars upon the wide, boundless sea, is divine as it was to the Chaldean Magi, who observed their revolutions from the plains.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
Id liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)