Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and… — Antony Sher
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my… — Bret Easton Ellis
Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he… — Lou Reed
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses — Bill Murray
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. — George Crumb
In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. — Martha Whitmore Hickman
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking… — David Whyte
Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by… — Billy Graham
I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms. — Michael Scott
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz
Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly. — Bill Vaughan
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a… — Luther Standing Bear
If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back. — John of the Cross
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order… — Corrie Ten Boom
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. .. — Yann Martel
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents… — Robert Frost
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it… — Ambrose Bierce
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field… — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird. — Eva Le Gallienne
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. — Napoleon Hill

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