Bird Quotes · Page 53

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

— Anonymous

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

— Rumi

“Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I'm as light as a cloud, as free as a bird. I'm part of the sky and I can fly.”

— Anonymous

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

— Jasper Fforde

“A bird's beauty lies in its feathers, but its strength lies in its wings.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

— Leonard Cohen

“I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require…

— Kobo Abe

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like…

— Sebastian Barry

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad…

— Terry Pratchett

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven…

— R. K. Laxman

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the…

— Roger Tory Peterson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought…

— Craig Ferguson

I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…

— May Kendall

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So…

— Dr. Seuss

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible…

— Jean Genet

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people…

— Joe Meno

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…

— Anonymous

“In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting…

— Tristram Stuart

A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a…

— Kenneth Rexroth

God Gives every bird it's food,But he does not throw it into it's nest.

— Tinku Razoria

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

— Charles Bowden

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves…

— Jason Mraz

“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers”

— Dean Young

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

— Alan Hirsch

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for.

— Anonymous

“Learn from the eagle. It does not solicit pity, it faces the strong winds instead of complaining.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

— Eric Thomas

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

— Nicolas Cage

Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

— Howie Chizek

I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.

— Michelle Obama

Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Charlotte Bronte

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds”

— Jerry Spinelli

“Sometimes the sparrow felt tired, sometimes he even felt like giving up, but that was when he spoke the happiest.”

— Michael James Payne