and birds in the hand such an irritating way of pecking…

The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the…

— Stephen King

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— e. e. cummings

“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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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