"He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast"

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost"

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

"Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds"

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of"

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings"

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood"