Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds. — Jack Gilbert
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way… — Julie Murphy
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. — Amit Ray
Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion. — Sylvia Boorstein
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we… — Bo Lozoff
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and… — Iris Marion Young
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds… — Dalai Lama
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly,… — Claude Debussy
As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the… — David Deida
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the… — Anthony de Mello
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a… — Pema Chodron
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up… — Pablo Picasso
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge… — Mahatma Gandhi
You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot… — Brandon Bays
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight… — Ian Holloway
You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a… — Uncle Kracker
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all… — John Milton
In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the… — Peter Cheeke
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have… — Clinton Scollard
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more… — Bertolt Brecht
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. — Anne Stevenson
Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. — A A Milne
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… — John Ruskin
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. — Orlando Gibbons
Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled. — Jane Hirshfield

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