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Quotes About Feathers

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.
~ Niall Williams
Her hands were gloved, small for her height-she was five six or seven-and her movements as clean as a poem. I was surprised and not sure why. She felt my gaze and looked up. Grey-blue eyes, soft as dove feathers.
~ Nicola Griffith
But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
~ Nikolai Gogol
How mad is a wet hen? In researching this, we contacted one of the nation's leading egg producers and explained the reason for calling. We said that we wanted to know how mad a wet hen becomes. The representative there said that he would call us back. After 30 minutes, the phone rang and it was the Hubbard Farms employee. He triumphantly announced that hens do not like to get wet. "They sort of flick their feathers," he said.
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
Only a Mahican would bring a comb to war." Connor rolled his eyes, then leaned in as if about to tell Amalie a great secret, lowering his voice to a whisper. "It helps them keep their feathers pretty." -Connor about Joesph
~ Pamela Clare
He's got a brave heart," Savannah said. "And those feathers are sexy." "You think anything that is breathing is sexy," I said. "Breathing is sexy. Dead things are awful hard to have a good time with," Savannah said. The sad part was she wasn't joking. No sexual act was too perverse or outlandish for her to consider. I hoped she drew the line well before necrophilia, but I also knew her lines were drawn with chalk.
~ Unknown
The flakes are the size of tiny feathers, and that's the way snow is, it's not necessarily cold.
~ Peter Høeg
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
~ Job 39:13