"A bird doesn't sing ...."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

 Lou Holtz

"It's the song ye sing, ...."

“It’s the song ye sing, and the smiles ye wear,

That’s a makin’ the sun shine everywhere.”

James Whitmore Riley

"He who, silent, loves to be with us, ...."

“He who, silent, loves to be with us, and who loves us in silence, has touched one of the keys that warm hearts.”

John C Lavater

Think every morning when the sun peeps through

“Think every morning when the sun peeps through

The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove

How jubilant the happy birds renew

Their old melodious madrigals of love!

And when you think of this, remember too,

‘Tis always morning somewhere, and above

The wakening continents; from shore to shore,

Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow