Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career. — Jalen Rose
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? — Alfred Russel Wallace
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees. — Henri Michaux
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the… — William P. Young
You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used… — Peter Thiel
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in… — Loren Eiseley
I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing… — Jackie McLean
Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it. — Unknown Author
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey,… — Sharon Tate
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Unknown Author
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the… — Simon Newcomb
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am… — Unknown Author
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went… — Alexander McCall Smith
Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch. — Howie Dorough
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the… — Mother Jones
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. — Guy Davenport
When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird. — Nicky Hilton
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds. — Vinton Cerf
All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle. — Daniel Bernoulli
I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there… — Roberto Cavalli
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants… — Bill Mollison
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest. — Antonio Carlos Jobim
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced… — Ken Wilber
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good… — Anton Chekhov

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