Bird Quotes · Page 62

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that…

— William Kamkwamba

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

— Dolly Parton

I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.

— Manisha Koirala

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

— Alan Perlis

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

— Dylan Thomas

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

— Neil Armstrong

I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

— Letitia Wright

They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys'…

— Herbert Hoover

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want…

— Tippi Hedren

Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life…

— Emily Dickinson

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that…

— David Sedaris

When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone, avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms…

— Anne Michaels

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to…

— D. H. Lawrence

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks…

— John Lubbock

...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“THE TAME BIRD WAS IN A CAGE THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest. They…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not…

— Thomas Nashe

And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is…

— Mark Haddon

Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about…

— Daniel Quinn

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that…

— Bill Moyers

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind…

— Van Morrison

Wrong, we're saved! Seagulls always stay near land! They only go out to sea to die!

— Ned Flanders

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

— Gilbert White

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have…

— Dizzy Gillespie

“In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.”

— Paulette Jiles

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

— Douglas William Jerrold

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love…

— Sri Chinmoy

“A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

— Caitlin Kittredge

I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.

— Simon Helberg

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

— Anonymous

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

— Anonymous

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

— Anonymous