Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never… — Clive Barker
There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car. — Denis Norden
Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines… — Geoff Ryman
I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a… — Nancy E. Turner
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan… — Richard Bach
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You… — Yann Martel
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object… — Biz Stone
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. — Catullus
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at… — Douglas Coupland
She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting,… — Ernest Hemingway
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But… — James Joyce
...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there. — Joshua Slocum
I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of… — Rabindranath Tagore
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me. — Ronnie Montrose
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate… — Anne Bishop
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece… — Eddie Redmayne
Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer… — Eileen Wilks
He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands,… — Josephine Tey
He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass. — Marjorie M. Liu
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange… — Michael Ondaatje
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you… — Ray Bradbury
Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators,… — Robert R. McCammon
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world.… — Roy Haynes

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