Sometimes happiness is like a bird. The sweeter it sings, the faster it flies away. — Patrick Ngetich Copy Share Image
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! — John Ramsay Copy Share Image
The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! — Jenny Lind Copy Share Image
“A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world. — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“...the cooing of pigeons, nesting in the wall outside; shimmering and unexpected like a first hyacinth gently tearing open its nutritious heart… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The crafty otter produced a flat pebble from his helmet, spat on one side of it, and held it up for the… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, compass or… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved.… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image