Bird Quotes · Page 54

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

— William Wordsworth

“We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do”

— Katherine Catmull

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

— W. H. Davies

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

— Paulo Coelho

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...

— Max Ernst

“Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?”

— Gaston Bachelard

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf,…

— Louis Sachar

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species…

— Jay Inslee

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only…

— Marianne Williamson

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the…

— Dan Fogelberg

Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things,…

— Emmet Fox

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close…

— Eli Attie

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants…

— Rumi

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals…

— Henry Van Dyke

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day…

— John Cage

From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we learn the same truth, which is…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street…

— Matana Roberts

The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep…

— Cinda Williams Chima

All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the…

— J. Arthur Thomson

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

— Malcolm X

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

— Lauren DeStefano

The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.

— William Somervile

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

— Rosa Luxemburg

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

— Oscar Wilde

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle…

— Lilian Jackson Braun

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

— Lorine Niedecker

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

— John Dryden

Dont just follow the herd. Be like a bird. Open your wings and fly high in the sky!-RVM

— RVM

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

— Walt Whitman

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

— Khalil Gibran

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

— Victor Hugo

“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.”

— Ross Macdonald

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made…

— Sidney Sheldon