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Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death -- T. S. Eliot
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. -- Leonard Cohen
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. -- Henry Miller
As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... -- Mary Oliver
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee. -- Charles Bukowski
Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species. -- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'. -- Leonard Cohen
Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld. -- Richard Preston
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. -- Ted Turner
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. -- Anne Lamott
It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much! -- Katherine Center
I'm more of a culture hummingbird. -- Jai Rodriguez
He has the attention span of a hummingbird. -- Christopher Moore
furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love -- Megan McCafferty
I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack. -- Ilona Andrews
Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight -- Kathryn Lasky
may my faith always beat the end of the daylike a hummingbird...returningto its favorite flower. -- Sanober Khan
Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart. -- James Oppenheim
Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers. -- Nathalia Crane
I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere. -- Shailene Woodley
[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye. -- Will Cuppy
He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird -- Karen Chance
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching. -- Francesca Lia Block
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey. -- Lesley Nicol
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.' -- Lesley Nicol
I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song. -- Leonard Cohen
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur. -- Mira Bartok
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. -- Morris Sheppard
The resurrection of the morning.The mystery of the night.The hummingbird's wings.The excitement of thunder.The rainbow in the waterfall.Wild mustard, that rough blaze of the fields. -- Mary Oliver
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't. -- Laurel Lea
As our bodies are mostly made of water, I'd rather be hungry than thirsty. And as love is mostly made up of sugar water, I'd rather be a hummingbird caged in your heart. -- Jarod Kintz
We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward. -- Amit Singhal

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