Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or birds:
“all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winters not forever, even snow
melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then?
all historys a winter sport or three:”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behaviorbees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paperits possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mothers impending visit.”
—Mary Arrigo (20th century)