Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,… — Henry Van Dyke
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it… — Henry David Thoreau
If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,… — Odysseas Elytis
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live… — Bokar Rinpoche
Every bird will follow it's specie. — Unknown Author
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it… — Alan Watts
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water… — Unknown Author
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique,… — Charles Mingus
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his… — Robert Browning
Birds of a feather really do flock together. — John C. Maxwell
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares… — A A Milne
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there… — Ambrose Bierce
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source… — James Salter
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all… — Elizabeth Kolbert
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Unknown Author
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels.… — Garth Stein
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is… — Dick Armey
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,… — John of the Cross
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. — William Bartram
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds… — Charles Dickens
The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale

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