Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in… — Hal Borland
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away… — Violet Fane
Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start… — Ellen DeGeneres
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a… — Burl Ives
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in… — John Barth
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good… — Edward Abbey
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the… — Benjamin Franklin
I wish we had all been born birds instead. — Kurt Vonnegut
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it. — Gary Larson
Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds. — Katy Perry
A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around… — Sebastian Barry
A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back. — Ronald Reagan
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds… — Thom Yorke
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it. — Leonardo da Vinci
Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you… — Morrie Schwartz
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. — Bret Harte
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'. — Joel Chandler Harris
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country. — Bill Ayers
Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to… — Dave McKean
Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. — Jonathan Lethem
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails… — Samuel Rutherford
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet… — Paul Watson

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