Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them…

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Sun Tzu

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and…

— Alexander McQueen

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her.…

— Lisa See

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they…

— Geoff Dyer

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