Quotes About Thrushes

when we complained of the pigeons' greed and of the fact that they scared away the thrushes and blackbirds she said that they were very like humans, that their interests were so few that crumbgrabbing was their substitute for shady company-promoting.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables! At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.

Even at its most spontaneous, [the Carmina ] has not the sudden miracle of the earliest vernacular ... It is the contrast between the thrushes in February and the violin.