Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start…

— Red Auerbach

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

— Nina Schuyler

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

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

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

Real like sucks the life out of losers. if you want to fuck with the eagles, you must learn how to fly.

— Anonymous

“If we studied birds ,maybe we could learn to be free.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz