Bird Quotes · Page 46

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

— Anthony Burgess

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money…

— Mitt Romney

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

— John Benfield

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

— William Blake

“Crow was getting a contact high from the dope; either that, or from the jambalaya.”

— John Sandford

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

— William Shakespeare

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.…

— Thomas Jefferson

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and…

— Jenny Downham

When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now,…

— Florence Nightingale

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot…

— Augustus William Hare

“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such…

— Émile Gaboriau

“The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle writes that “From a scientific perspective, it was as if the researchers had traced the lineage of…

— Adam M. Grant

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs…

— Douglas Coupland

'Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not…

— Robert Fuller Murray

Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a…

— Leon Croizat

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds…

— George Crabbe

She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through…

— Neil Gaiman

I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,…

— Colleen McCullough

“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to…

— Tracy Guzeman

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

— Charles Dickens

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look…

— Douglas Adams

Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career.

— Jalen Rose

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

— Alejandra Pizarnik

“Lovers are the best birds in the world when they know how to fly higher...”

— Munia Khan

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

— Audre Lorde

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

— Rajneesh

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

“Birds Fly in the Sky, because they were never taught to Cry!-RVM”

— RVM

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

— Tiffeny Milbrett

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

— Anonymous

You're a soft melody. Well I swear that I heard. From a lost mockingbird stuck up in a tree.

— Amos Lee

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

— Anonymous

I'll be a new bird with the head of an ass, Two pigs' feet, two men's feet,and two of a hen

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Life is like a beautiful bird that comes to your hand.If you let it go,it will fly into the sky,never to return.-RVM

— RVM

“Girls chattering is like birds.” He fluttered his fingers at his ears. “You hear only the notes.”

— J.D. Robb

“Several fat crows were perched along the cables of the bridge, a murder of bad omens. ”

— Brian Harmon