Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.… — Victor Hugo
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but… — Victor Hugo
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky. — Anthony Horowitz
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior… — Benjamin Hoff
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk… — Anatoly Berezovoy
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory… — Alfred Worden
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and… — Leonardo da Vinci
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild… — Anna Kavan
Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said… — Anne Bishop
I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I… — Blaize Clement
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts… — Ernest Hemingway
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep,… — Flora Thompson
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and… — Jack Finney
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
This being-nice crap was for thebirds. — Kerrelyn Sparks
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.… — Michael Shaara
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one… — Oscar Wilde
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer… — Quentin Blake
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I… — Carrie Jones

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