Building Quote by Annie Dillard

“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing…

— Annie Dillard

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In…

— Shannon Hale

“ Ledge Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is…

— Kay Ryan

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form…

— Thomas Jefferson

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round,…

— William Shakespeare

“The Ascending Eagle by Stewart Stafford I shall not stray down spurious alleys, In pursuit of such desiccated husks, To be a leaf adrift…

— Stewart Stafford

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see…

— Kate Chopin

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

— Martial

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the…

— John James Audubon

“One thing in the school was captivating, lovely. Pictures of birds. Rose didn’t know if the teacher had climbed up and nailed them above…

— Alice Munro

“The [bird's] nest with its streamers was a final unbidden touch: It was what human hands had not brought to the building, and could…

— Julie Orringer