Bird Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The stock from a pigeon is unique. It's much better than quail or duck.

— Alvin Leung

“My particular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be alright for Moses in the desert, but, if they are served in the form…

— A.A. Milne

“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of…

— William James

“One day when Nasruddin was left in charge of the local tea-house, the king and some retainers, who had been hunting nearby, stopped in…

— David Graeber

“THE ELIZABETHANS ATE all sorts of fowl, including quail, crane, heron, buzzards, and pigeons. Partridge, like many of the other birds, was thought to…

— Francine Segan

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

— Julia Ward Howe

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,…

— William Shakespeare

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic…

— Tove Jansson

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

— Charles Spurgeon

“The creeks wend between beech trees, then end where freshets feed the meres (there, the speckled perch teem; there, the freckled newts rest). The…

— Christian Bök

“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled…

— Eli Brown