„Attend me. How do you prove that there are eggs in a bird’s nest? Don’t strain your gray matter: go climb the tree and find out. There is no other way.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.""Enormous? Did you just call me fat?""It was an analogy.""I am not fat.“
— Cassandra Clare
„His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.“
— Hermann Hesse
„when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…“
— Nikki Sixx
„Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.“
— Lewis Carroll