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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."

"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
Explore more quotes by Bob Dylan

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth."

"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"

"Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'."

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."

"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."
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