I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.

“You’re flightier than a hummingbird on crack.”

— Lou Harper

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

— Shailene Woodley

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

— Francesca Lia Block

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest,…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

“Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly's wings, vulture's wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swans, dragonfly's serene wings, wings of albatross, lovely wings of…

— Munia Khan

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

— Christopher Moore

Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

— Will Cuppy

I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines…

— Leonard Cohen

We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird.…

— Wangari Maathai

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

— Chogyam Trungpa

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

— Jai Rodriguez

Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

— Nathalia Crane

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the…

— Dave Eggers