„Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.Ask me a riddle and I reply,Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.“

— A.A. Milne

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„Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."“
— Chinua Achebe
„When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„And the flowers sing in D minorAnd the birds fly happily.“
— Kurt Cobain
„They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.“
— Malcolm X
„Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.“
— J. M. Barrie