Bird Quotes · Page 70

I call both the left and right wings socialism. And today, the right-wingers love to think that they're capitalists, or free enterprisers,…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

— Czeslaw Milosz

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are…

— Henry David Thoreau

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ…

— James Russell Lowell

You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’…

— Ken Kesey

I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

— Roger Tory Peterson

I describe the variety of different kinds of experiences I had, from seeing into the future to being inside the body of…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract…

— Douglas Adams

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

— Jonathan Swift

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be…

— James Patterson

The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

— Hal Borland

There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance. Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!” At least…

— J.R. Ward

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

— Anthony Horowitz

In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose…

— Phyllis McGinley

When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For…

— William Shakespeare

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white…

— Robinson Jeffers

Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,…

— Violet Fane

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Bronte

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no…

— Kay Ryan

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the…

— Clinton Scollard

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the…

— George C. Scott

There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much…

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Lisa See

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I…

— Nicholas Sparks

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness…

— Wynn Bullock

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“‎Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a…

— Mark Twain

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to…

— Douglas Coupland

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost…

— Diana Gabaldon

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,…

— Alexander Pope

Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary…

— Gordon Hempton

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a…

— Amanda Schull

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests…

— Leslie Jordan

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am…

— Charlotte Bronte

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

— John James Audubon

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire…

— Tippi Hedren