Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way… — Omar Khayyam
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. — Maya Angelou
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held… — Francois Fenelon
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one… — Carl Linnaeus
Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not… — Goswami Kriyananda
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied… — Alan Cohen
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing… — Henry Ward Beecher
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the… — Chogyam Trungpa
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. — Rajneesh
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. — Unknown Author
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not… — Unknown Author
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in… — Black Elk
Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of… — Edgar Guest
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. — Elizabeth Goudge
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog. — John L. Lewis
It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone. — John McCain
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly… — William O. Douglas
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones,… — Unknown Author
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis

Who Wrote These Bird Quotes

1,479 authors contributed a total of 2,421 Bird Quotes, led by these top contributors: