Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or… — Peter Cundall
The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of… — William Henry Ogilvie
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the… — Eric Pianka
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands.… — Toni Morrison
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the… — Rajneesh
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE… — William James
I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art… — Ronald Reagan
I know why the caged bird sings. — Maya Angelou
Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball… — Unknown Author
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of… — Guy Murchie
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live:… — Geoff Dyer
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. — Martin Luther
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton
Earth has few secrets from the birds. — William Beebe
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. — Douglas Coupland
Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail.… — Unknown Author
So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping… — Linda Gregg
I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses… — Jennifer Lawrence

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