Bird Quotes · Page 70

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

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

— Richard Dawkins

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

— Steven Wright

“If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock" -Liesl”

— S. Jae-Jones

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”

— J. G. Holland

“...[the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.”

— Redmond O'Hanlon

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…

— William James

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird,…

— Emily Dickinson

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are…

— Peter R. Grant

“I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is…

— Banani Ray

I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought…

— Bill Bailey

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

— Charles M. Schulz

“The bird came to Franny of its own accord, as the birds in Central Park always did, flitting over to perch on…

— Alice Hoffman

As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I…

— Alda Merini

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“You and I once fancied ourselves birds, and we were happy even when we flapped our wings and fell down and bruised…

— Louis de Bernières

Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern,…

— Trevor Howard

“If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace…

— Jon Young

“My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The…

— Mary Roach

“Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

— Anonymous

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

— Sun Tzu

“Then I will not repine Knowing that bird of mine Though flown shall in a distant tree Bright melody for me Return.”

— Emily Dickinson

“The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.”

— Will Cuppy

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

— Eva Zeisel

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

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing…

— Tom Springfield

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

— William Kamkwamba

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

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ernest Hemingway