Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they… — Kurt Vonnegut
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her… — Mervyn Peake
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden… — Rabindranath Tagore
Feathers predate birds. — Robert T. Bakker
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did… — Terry Tempest Williams
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been. — Vera Pavlova
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds… — Catherynne M. Valente
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people… — Gale Norton
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in… — Kate Christensen
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used… — Margaret Atwood
I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves. — Ross Macdonald
... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail,… — Sara Gruen
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order). — Tig Notaro
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should… — Colm Toibin
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. — Gary Snyder
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one… — Jacob M. Appel
You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly. — Lewis Carroll

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