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Bird Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
- Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the…
- This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high…
- Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we…
- There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they…
- The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
More Bird Quotes
- 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… — David Attenborough
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — 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… — Douglas Adams
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — 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