Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. — Eric Jerome Dickey
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom.… — Wilford Woodruff
Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but… — Richard Wurmbrand
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power… — P.J. O'Rourke
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit… — P.J. O'Rourke
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of… — William Henry Hudson
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! — William Blake
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a… — Richard Cushing
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! — Belva Plain
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,… — Alexander Pope
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be… — Rose Kennedy
We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of… — Roger Caras
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,… — Sakya Pandita
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those… — Benjamin Franklin
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in… — William Shakespeare
Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. — William Shakespeare
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that… — Charles Lindbergh
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope… — C. D. Darlington
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover… — John Harvey Kellogg
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a… — Victor Hugo
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — Unknown Author

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