Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. — Isaac Watts
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. — John Masefield
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! — John Keats
It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest. — John Heywood
The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every… — John N. Mitchell
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. — Juvenal
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when… — Joseph Wood Krutch
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain
One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't… — Malcolm Forbes
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men… — Al-MaÊ¿arri
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd… — Oliver Goldsmith
He guides me and the bird. In His good time! — Robert Browning
When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its… — Randolph Sinks Foster
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying. — Sri Chinmoy
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends… — Maria Shriver
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be . . . time to commune with your… — Fred Bear
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. — Eva Zeisel
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. — Paul Eldridge
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird — Josephine Hart

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