Bird Quote by Alexander Pope

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

— Ovid

I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as…

— John Woo

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You…

— Daniel Tosh

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to…

— Jonathan Miles

The name came from, erm... us all just agreeing on a name that we liked. There was talk of Swans at first, but there…

— Jimi Goodwin

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the…

— Douglas Coupland

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

— William Shakespeare

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies…

— William Shakespeare