Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash. — Cynthia Hand
We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows… — Daisy Ashford
She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like… — Emma Donoghue
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for… — Frederick Buechner
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and… — Gloria Whelan
It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could… — Isaac Marion
If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him… — Janet Fitch
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not.… — Neil Gaiman
I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my… — Omar Khayyam
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way… — P.G. Wodehouse
Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. — Anthony Burgess
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in… — Elizabeth von Arnim
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus,… — Hesiod
I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit… — Jackson Pearce
I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and… — Kabir
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her… — Katie Roiphe
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of… — Mark Haddon
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… — Michael Ondaatje
Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. — Mike Thompson
She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been… — Neil Gaiman
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Like the birds I will fly. — Victoria Forester
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I… — Yann Martel

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