Bird Quotes · Page 55

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

— Michael Gilbert

“Like a stone tossed into a flock of birds, talk startled swiftly into flight whenever the new postmaster was mentioned.”

— Sarah Blake

“I wonder, now — yes, why not — unusual combination — holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.

— Ted Cruz

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

— Valerie Bertinelli

“Happiness is like a bird. If it chooses to sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a…

— Farin Powell

“Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk; Don’t worry. You just walk- Just Fly!-RVM”

— RVM

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on…

— Hannah Kent

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a…

— Marsha Norman

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“But what Mayil liked the most was how birds behaved when they disagreed. If one bird was angry with another, it simply…

— Priyadarshini

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The fowl's head lies at the base of the pine stump, mouth shaking opening and closing slowly, eyes getting a last look…

— Ademola Adejumo

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to…

— Mick Ralphs

“And what are we to think, I asked,"of the article in Le Soleil?" "That it is a vast pity its inditer was…

— Edgar Allan Poe

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds…

— Nicole Krauss

I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend…

— Zooey Deschanel

Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are…

— Esther Hicks

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's…

— John Green

“I shook hands with the attorney, advising him to forgive the cat he had banished from his offices since a child had…

— Angela Misri

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and…

— Ambrose Bierce

X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee…

— John Keats

“…it charms mere eyesight to believe The nearest thing not trees Is the sky, into which The trees reach, opening their luminous…

— Wendell Berry

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

— Robert Frost

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

— Eminem

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

— William Blake

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

— Eugene J. Martin

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

— William Shakespeare

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

— Gilbert White

Wrong, we're saved! Seagulls always stay near land! They only go out to sea to die!

— Ned Flanders

I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

— Letitia Wright

“In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.”

— Paulette Jiles

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have…

— Dizzy Gillespie

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love…

— Sri Chinmoy

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

— Anonymous