“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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Ernest Hemingway501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
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…”
Kid Cudi (1984) American rapper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor from Ohio
-Mr. Rager
Music
“MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.”
A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents
as quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
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