Bird on a Wire (past tense)

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. - English Proverb

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. - Jane Goodall

There is always danger for those who are afraid. - George Bernard Shaw

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Style is a natural extension of who you are as a person. - Mark Richards

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

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

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. - Cathy Carlyle

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. - James M. Barrie

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. - Henry George

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. - Phyllis Diller

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright

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

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. - David McCord

Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. - Andrew Lang

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. - Gordon Parks

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it. - Jeff Foxworthy

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. - Eric Fromm

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. - Keith Ablow

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. - Joyce Maynard

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. - L. Frank Baum

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. - Kim Kardashian

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. - Albert Camus

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti