Asking Quote by Bertrand Russell

“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing.…

— Annie Dillard

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t…

— Harper Lee

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

A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot…

— Harper Lee

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Tradition whispers that in the sky is a bird, blue as the sky itself, which brings to its finders happiness. But everyone cannot see…

— Venice J. Bloodworth

“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

“...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

“The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds”

— Jerry Spinelli

“Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.”

— Walter Tevis

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

— Johannes Kepler