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Portal:Birds/Quotes/19 People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.
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"Fly Like a Bird" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released on March 13, 2006, by Island Records as a single from her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). Written and produced by Carey and James "Big Jim" Wright , the song is influenced by Gospel , soul , and R&B music genres.
Some birds let half of their brains sleep while they fly, which blows my mind since I tend to get lost in the car while using 100% of my brain.
The legend has been compared to the flying imagery found in a number of spirituals, and also to the metaphor of a "caged bird". [9] Spirituals in this vein include "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Now Let Me Fly" and "All God's Chillun Got Wings". [10] Harriet Tubman experienced dreams of flying "like a bird" in her youth. [11]
But time flies like an arrow. When tax forms tax all firm men's souls, While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks; That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls – And thins the fruit flies ranks. Like tossed bananas in the skies, The thin fruit flies like common yarrow; Then's the time to time the time flies – Like the time flies like an arrow.
An illustration of the Shakuna Vimana that is supposed to fly like a bird with hinged wings and tail. [14] The Vaimānika Shāstra is an early 20th-century Sanskrit text on aeronautics, obtained allegedly by mental channeling, about the construction of vimānas, the "chariots of the Gods". The existence of the text was revealed in 1952 by G. R ...
Scenes are interspersed throughout the film of a lecturer who regales an audience including an enthusiastic young woman with a wealth of knowledge of the habits of birds, as he becomes increasingly birdlike himself. Owlish Brewster lives hidden and alone under the Houston Astrodome and dreams of creating wings that will help him fly like a bird ...