Bird Quotes · Page 60

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

— Bill Vaughan

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

— William Butler Yeats

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

— Martial

The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads.

— Mariana Fulger

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

— William Blake

“It's hard to tell what a fish is thinking. Eagles are good looking birds, you know.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

— Jenny Downham

“Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.”

— Wislawa Szymborska

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them…

— John James Audubon

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of…

— Anonymous

Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an…

— Charles Darwin

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,…

— Bill Mollison

Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the…

— Tommy Douglas

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light…

— Ann Aguirre

Oh, man, I was a stick in high school. I had a bird chest; I got called that a lot: 'Bird chest.'…

— DeAndre Jordan

Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to…

— Anonymous

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“But now let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of…

— Nathanael West

Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the…

— David Mason

“It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a…

— Seamus Heaney

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they…

— Anatoli Boukreev

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and,…

— Robert Crais

“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? - Then I shall build you wings.”

— Drew Barrymore

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Here we have Diogenes, His Highness’ favourite canary. Things are starting to take shape.”

— Antal Szerb

The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

— Victor Hugo

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

— E. F. Schumacher

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

— Martin Luther

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

— Pierre Charron

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

— Billy Squier

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

— Black Elk

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

— Demetri Martin

“A bird like that must fly free and feed on nostalgia for the same time when he flew alongside someone else.”

— Paulo Coelho's

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

— Ivan Pavlov

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

— Ralph Ellison

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

— Peggy Whitson