Bird Quotes · Page 60

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

— Lauren DeStefano

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Alma Gluck

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

— William Somervile

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

— Katherine Catmull

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

— Gaston Bachelard

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

— Max Ernst

“Tom once told him that birds sing differently before and after a storm. Benny didn't know if that was true, but he…

— Anonymous

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight,…

— Kyle Dunnigan

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing…

— Graham Parker

“But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and with the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that…

— Rumi

Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew,…

— Olav H. Hauge

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and…

— Terry Pratchett

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never…

— Dennis Rodman

“Gulls churr; ducks cluck. Bulls plus bucks run thru buckrush; thus dun burrs clutch fur tufts. Ursus cubs plus Lupus pups hunt…

— Christian Bök

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I…

— Emma Donoghue

There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is…

— Susanna Clarke

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature…

— Washington Irving

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding…

— Milan Kundera

“When I'm sailing, sometimes I'll spend hours watching flocks of birds. They have something special going on there," Gordon continued. "They are…

— Joan Frances Casey

“As the van door starts to close, Brad suddenly realizes that the instant the doors close completely, the van interior will become…

— George Saunders

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves,…

— Margo Lanagan

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— W. H. Davies

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— RVM

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

— John Dryden

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

— Lorine Niedecker

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

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

“Birds Fly in the Sky, because they were never taught to Cry!-RVM”

— RVM

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

— Anonymous

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

— Tiffeny Milbrett

I'll be a new bird with the head of an ass, Two pigs' feet, two men's feet,and two of a hen

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

— Anonymous

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan