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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. -- Francois Rabelais
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. -- Nicholas Breton
The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below -- John McCrae
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? -- William Shakespeare
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. -- Alexander Pope
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. -- Edmund Waller
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. -- Huey Lewis
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. -- John Milton
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. -- John Lyly
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. -- Robert Burns
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. -- Fawn M. Brodie
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. -- John Milton
Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life. -- Jerry Reed
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. -- John McCrae
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. -- Oscar Wilde
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. -- Maya Lin
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. -- Alexander Pope
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. -- Edward Lear
My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes. -- Amy Weber
Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings. -- Joe Shuster
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world -- Robert Browning
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms. -- Eudora Welty
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects. -- Mark Twain
My curiosity sister of larks. -- Fernando Pessoa
Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks. -- Louise Rennison
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder. -- Dylan Thomas
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet. -- Jean Ingelow
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. -- Robert Graves

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