Bird Quotes · Page 56

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.

— Simon Helberg

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

— Caitlin Kittredge

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

— Anonymous

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

— Anonymous

“A white bird that doesn't learn how to observe and reply truthfully; is nothing more than a bigot in its kind”

— kelvin G. Adeniyi

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

— Viktor Schauberger

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is…

— Al Purdy

I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no…

— Thom Yorke

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of…

— William Henry Hudson

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a…

— Anne Sexton

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by…

— Yukio Mishima

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

— Charles Bukowski

“Interesting fact: eagles are the only birds to work out how to eat tortoises. You know? They pick them up, flying up…

— Terry Pratchett

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their…

— E. B. White

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time…

— Jim Morrison

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were…

— Isaac Marion

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What…

— Swami Vivekananda

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really…

— H. Bentley Glass

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to…

— Colleen McCullough

If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different…

— Zhuangzi

“The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

— Rajneesh

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

— Richard Dawkins

“...[the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.”

— Redmond O'Hanlon

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”

— J. G. Holland

“If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock" -Liesl”

— S. Jae-Jones

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

— Steven Wright

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

— Sun Tzu

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

— Anonymous

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that…

— William Kamkwamba

High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing…

— Tom Springfield

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

— Dolly Parton

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

— Eva Zeisel

“The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.”

— Will Cuppy