Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on…

— Carl Sandburg

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

— Anonymous

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

— Anonymous

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

— Thorolf Rafto

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

— John Drinkwater

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

— William Butler Yeats

All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful…

— John of Damascus

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with…

— Christopher Columbus

I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with…

— Robert Jones Burdette

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

— Henry David Thoreau

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds…

— Julian Treasure

I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts…

— Confucius

“Birds fly with their wings, people with their happiness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei