Bird Quotes · Page 59

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

— Myles Munroe

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Giorgos Seferis

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

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

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

“They found themselves striding into the herald's square of a place called Mercutio before they could discuss whether it was nightingales or…

— Catherynne M. Valente

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight…

— Douglas Adams

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Who cares what the others think? Fuck, brother, we’re all searching for what’s ours. I found mine in my little bird. Dive…

— Lila Rose

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led…

— John Varvatos

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

— Carl Sandburg

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme…

— Alberto Moravia

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind…

— Meng Haoran

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where…

— Karen Allen

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds…

— William Shakespeare

“Perhaps in that flight of birds . . . the leader was not really a bold spirit trusting to its own initiative…

— P.J. O'Rourke

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“So he sat and listened to pigeons talking, till it seemed to him they were trying to lull the restlessness of Earth,…

— Lord Dunsany

KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about…

— Bill Vaughan

Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get…

— Aya Kito

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was…

— Katie Roiphe

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

— Kool Moe Dee

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

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

— Myron Scholes

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— J. Patrick Lewis

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

— Anonymous