"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

"Feathers predate birds"

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"