Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck
Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird. — Sam Snead
One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge… — Daniel Tammet
Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge. — Chiune Sugihara
One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more time here, and if… — Todd Agnew
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I… — Elizabeth Smart
He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird. — Ian Holloway
God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words. — Anna Hempstead Branch
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or… — Christian Wiman
It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the… — Patricia Monaghan
Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of… — Alan Feduccia
On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I,… — Alan Feduccia
Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian. — Alan Feduccia
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.… — Ted Simon
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up… — William Christopher Handy
I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. — Brian Lamb
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? — William Wordsworth
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . . — William Wordsworth
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down… — William F. Longgood
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their… — William Henry Hudson
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees,… — Audrey Hepburn
Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Unknown Author
The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers… — Christopher Columbus
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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