“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
Source: Fang
“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) Novelist, poet, writer, activist
“And I never thought this life was possible, You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
“As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king”
Henry Constable (1562–1613) English poet
Diaphenia
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole.”
Robert Lucas Jr. (1937) American economist
Robert E. Lucas, to Justin Fox, quoted in Bob Lucas on the comeback of Keynesianism http://business.time.com/2008/10/28/bob-lucas-on-the-comeback-of-keynesianism/ (2008).
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
Variant: What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.