Blue jays Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“ The Blue Jay's Lullaby— Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets, Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets, Grasshoppers, snails, and…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate…

— Tom Robbins

“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

“magpies, jays, sparrowhawks, kestrels, all”

— Monty Don

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

— Rachel Griffiths

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

— Rachel Griffiths

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.

— John Burroughs

“Birds are poems I haven't caught yet”

— Jim Harrison

“if a bird could be taught limericks, a slave might be taught to remember as well. Merely glancing at the size of the skulls…

— Colson Whitehead

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

— Natasha Trethewey

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

— Rita Dove