The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
“When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You can’t make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a… — S. M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Birds have nests that seem to be inherent. I think there must be some kind of extended phenotype for humans. People probably… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly-… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock" -Liesl” — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
“...[the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.” — Redmond O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Then I will not repine Knowing that bird of mine Though flown shall in a distant tree Bright melody for me Return.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image