Bird Quotes · Page 69

“Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

— Robert Moss

“Being a bird, I imagined, must be wonderful. All birds had to do was fly. no need to worry about contraception.”

— Haruki Murakami

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

— Lawrence Hargrave

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

— H. G. Wells

“She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.”

— Lisa Wingate

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

— Anonymous

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say

— Leonard Cohen

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,…

— Harper Lee

The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love,…

— William Henry Ogilvie

Whatever We Do, We Must Remember Our Aim Every Moment! If You Dream To Fly With Eagles, Don't Waste Your Time In…

— Pacifiersucker

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own…

— George Eliot

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know…

— Kami Garcia

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could…

— Toni Morrison

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to…

— William Least Heat-Moon

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some…

— Susanna Centlivre

She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through…

— Neil Gaiman

Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a…

— Leon Croizat

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds…

— George Crabbe

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look…

— Douglas Adams

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

— Charles Dickens

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,…

— Colleen McCullough

I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to…

— Tracy Guzeman

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

— J. Lynn

“When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

— Alexander Pope

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in…

— Anonymous

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

— Mark Twain

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

“But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Peregrine Falcon This is a large falcon about the size of a crow.”

— Mark Farley

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

— Amit Ray

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

— Mark Twain

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

— John McCain

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

— Kris Carr

“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”

— Orville Wright

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Manisha Koirala