Bird Quotes · Page 46

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

— Hans Christian Andersen

If the early bird catches the worm, then what the night owl catches?

— Vikrant Parsai

“Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

— Chuck Palahniuk

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

— Thaksin Shinawatra

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A…

— Pauline Quirke

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

— Anonymous

“Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.”

— Santosh Kalwar

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

— Jeff Chapman

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

— Robert Frost

You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate?" They twisted the head off your favorite doll,…

— Ilona Andrews

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some…

— George A. Romero

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on…

— Debi Mazar

His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror,…

— Julie Anne Peters

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the…

— Peter Zumthor

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they…

— Mohsin Hamid

I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into…

— Pat Cooper

A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go…

— David Mamet

“He walked outside onto the terrace and sat. Obviously settled and comfortable, he poured coffee. There were ways and ways to gain…

— Nora Roberts

“Wild Geese" You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles…

— Mary Oliver

We all have some flaws. But when I have a moment of doubt, I find inspiration from being in the moment, by…

— Mickalene Thomas

Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way…

— William P. Young

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in…

— David Macbeth Moir

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the…

— Tove Jansson

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

— Clarice Lispector

As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the…

— Kimbal Musk

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

— Mary Renault

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

— James M. Barrie

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”

— David Brent

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

— Prince Philip

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

— Anonymous

Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

— Rajneesh

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

— James O'Barr

“The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

— Jerzy Kosinski

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

— Voltaire

The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

— Michael Drayton

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

— Wallace Stevens