Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and… — Aldous Huxley
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand… — Duane Michals
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting,… — Elizabeth Hoyt
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the… — Ishmael Beah
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you… — Joe Dunthorne
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move… — Richard Preston
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You… — Nhat Hanh
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun… — Emma Donoghue
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a… — Kathryn Lasky
The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures… — Malcolm Lowry
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and… — P.G. Wodehouse
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. — Peter Weir
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs. — Shusaku Endo
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether… — Thomas Hobbes
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they… — Antonio Damasio
We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti — Charles Bukowski
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses… — Elizabeth Goudge
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to… — Ellen Gilchrist

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