Bird Quotes

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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. — David Attenborough
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit… — David Attenborough
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic… — Douglas Adams
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor. — Roseanne Barr
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? — Drew Barrymore
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene,… — John Adams
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them… — Francis Beaumont
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or… — Eric Berne
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut… — Henry Ward Beecher

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