The grass is always greener on the other side of the window.
Some migratory birds fly as much as 90,000 km every year; they definitely merit a little kindness and consideration, and safe places to nest.
It can be hard to remember what you are, or what your various appendages do, when you wake up too early in the morning.
Take me out to the ballgame,
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack,
I don't care if I never get back....
--Jack Norworth, Albert von Tilzer
The average height of a baby giraffe at birth is about 1.8 metres (6 feet).
--GiraffeConservation.org
Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.
--Terry Pratchett
There may be more beautiful times, but this is ours.
--Jean-Paul Sartre. (...peut-ȇtre en est-il de plus beaux [temps] mais c'est le nôtre.)
One hundred grams of milk chocolate is an excellent source of riboflavin, vitamin B12, and the dietary minerals manganese, phosphorous, and zinc. Chocolate is a good source of calcium, magnesium and iron.
--from Wikipedia.
One of the first pictorial depictions of a hat appears in a tomb painting from Thebes, Egypt, which shows a man wearing a conical straw hat, dated to around 3200 B.C.
--Wikipedia
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
--Duke Ellington