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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 William Lyon Phelps
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
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