“There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>Cousin Phillis<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Elizabeth Gaskell<\/a><\/p>\n Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off-and they are nearly always doing it.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>The Secret Garden<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n “Do you know,” Peter asked “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>Peter Pan<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>James M. Barrie<\/a><\/p>\n All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>Dombey and Son<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n Let’s hear it for our feathered friends! \u00a0Here are five quotes about birds from literature. The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[666,825,669,389,304,564,325,337,563,616,167],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-bird-quotes","tag-charles-dickens","tag-cousin-phillis","tag-dombey-and-son","tag-elizabeth-gaskell","tag-frances-hodgson-burnett","tag-james-m-barrie","tag-peter-pan","tag-the-secret-garden","tag-to-the-lighthouse","tag-virginia-woolf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Quotes about Birds from Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n
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