Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes
I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful.… — Christopher Cokinos
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.… — Christopher Cokinos
When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky--without leaving a trace. — Unknown Author
When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose,… — Glenda Millard
Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. — Charlemagne
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places… — Stephen Mitchell
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. — Empedocles
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together. — Unknown Author
Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy — Killa Kyleon
Each bird must sing with his own throat. — Henrik Ibsen
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. — Henry David Thoreau
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. — Ambrose Bierce
Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is… — Rajneesh
Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like… — Milan Kundera
I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I have to made my mind which of the followwing:… — Zacarias Moussaoui
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and… — Ernest K. Gann
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,… — Charles Bukowski
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard?… — Jorge Luis Borges
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon

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