Bird Quotes · Page 40

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

— William Wordsworth

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

— J. Patrick Lewis

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

— Anonymous

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.

— Paul H. Dunn

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you…

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

If you believe that the world will end in 2012 then you must believe that a dead bird is flying through the sky.

— Yamum

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a…

— Anonymous

“The lane was eerily quiet apart from the sound of the whistling wind. Usualy the bird beings would be here singing a…

— Chloe Meadows

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed.…

— Anonymous

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O…

— Anonymous

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a…

— John Ruskin

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble?…

— Jalen Rose

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with…

— Christopher Hitchens

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline…

— John Steinbeck

What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a…

— Ardyth Kennelly

Thousands of stars in the night sky, And shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Especially in…

— John Walter Bratton

“Out of the clouds I hear a faint bark, as of a faraway dog. It is strange how the world cocks its…

— Aldo Leopold

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That…

— Kathleen Raine

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The…

— Thomas Hardy

“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.”

— Anonymous

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

— Giorgos Seferis

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

— Francis Bacon

You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly…

— Brandon Bays

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

— Richard J. Needham

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

— Kool Moe Dee

“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free.”

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

— William Dean Howells

Love is like a bird, you never know when it is going to come and shit on your face.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

— Cassandra Clare

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

— Alan Coren

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

— Kristin Kreuk

“some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright…”

— Stephen King

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I were a Bird, then you'd be the first Person I would shiT oN…

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

— Yuja Wang