Feather Quotes

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. (Paul Valéry)
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. View quote
Edith Wharton
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. View quote
Shania Twain
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. View quote
Maya Angelou
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. View quote
Edmund Waller
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. View quote
Robert Jordan
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. View quote
Helen Keller
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. View quote
William Wordsworth
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. View quote
Isabel Allende
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all. View quote
Richard Bach
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly – I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads – The allotment of death. View quote
Ted Hughes
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more. View quote
Thomas Browne
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. View quote
René Char
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. View quote
George Herbert
To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. (Terence McKenna)
The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led. View quote
Bob Marley
What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather. View quote
Herman Melville
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! View quote
Allen Ginsberg