Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ... — Steven Herrick
He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring,… — Terry Pratchett
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier… — Terry Pratchett
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of… — Ismail KadarÃ©
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be… — John Hench
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from… — Katherine Dunn
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating… — Kaui Hart Hemmings
The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say — Leonard Cohen
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're… — Maggie Stiefvater
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they… — Sandra Steingraber
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle… — Sue Monk Kidd
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat… — Terry Tempest Williams
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. — Vikas Swarup
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… — William Saroyan
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless,… — Anne Rice
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures. — Brian Andreas
The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember… — Brian Andreas
Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. — Charles Bowden
I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the… — Cliff Martinez

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