Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously.… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles,… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“These mechanical birds will get our message out,” he explained. “They will go to an Internet café and e-mail the remaining Master… — Kate Howard Copy Share Image
I'm very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy.… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The beast retires to its shelter, and the bird flies to its nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
