“And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings”

“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

“Ok, I said to myself as I sighted the bird down the end of the gun. This time, my fine feathered friend, there is no escape.”

“Bye-bye," Auntie cooed, and waved a tattered wing. "Bye-bye, 12-8, you fool!”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

“I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.”

“I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness.”