Bird on a Wire (past tense)

Electrical degenerators - Archie Bunker

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

Wishing to be a bird so you can Fly Away. - Unknown

My alone time is for everyone's safety. - Unknown

Electricity is really just organized lightning. - George Carlin

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

Electric Eel: Fish that thrives in strong currents - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. - Abdul Kalam

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

Safety Belt: The one you don't drink before driving home - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse. - American Proverb

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

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

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

Beware the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. - Sylvia Porter

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

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

Can we be casual in the work of God—casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned? - Duncan Campbell

It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission. - Jonathan Van Ness

A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises. - Euripides

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

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge