Hungry Kookaburras

Golden dreams make men awake hungry. - Proverb

The only risk of failure is promotion. - Scott Adams

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra

When New Zealanders emigrate to Australia, it raises the average IQ of both countries. - Robert Muldoon

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

When you're my age, you just never risk being ill - because then everyone says, "Oh, he's done for." - John Gielgud

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris