Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I… — Karen Allen
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil… — W. E. B. Du Bois
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love… — Ellen Glasgow
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — Seneca the Younger
Love is a bird... she needs to fly — Madonna Ciccone
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do… — Marv Levy
...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers... — Zitkala-Sa
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and… — Wang Wei
You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work… — Laurence Overmire
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening. — Jack Handey
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's… — Arthur Symons
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying… — Sun Tzu
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the… — C.S. Lewis

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