Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a… — William Morris Hunt
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping… — Alice Munro
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. — Barnett Newman
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it… — Enid Blyton
Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll… — Jim Harrison
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our… — Kathy Acker
There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you. — Meredith Willson
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it… — Michael Frayn
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love. — Omar Khayyam
Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people… — Stanislav Grof
You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began — Alejandra Pizarnik
I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born… — Charles Baudelaire
Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house… — Dan Chaon
If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em. — Darrell Royal
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have… — Henry David Thoreau
Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation. Glamour shimmered around him,… — Julie Kagawa
The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using… — Karen Kingsbury
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't… — Katherine Catmull
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking… — Margarita Engle
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. — Sun Tzu
Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity… — Tove Jansson
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands… — Truman Capote

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