“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)
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American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes

“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi

Believer, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley
Song lyrics, Diary of a Madman (1981)

“Birds seen flying around, you never see them too long on the ground, You want to be one of them…”
-Mr. Rager
Music
“MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.”
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)

as quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
As quoted in Investing with Impact: Why Finance is a Force for Good (2016) by Jeremy Balkin