Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees. — Naomi Shihab Nye
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex… — Tahereh Mafi
...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the… — Tom Franklin
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as… — William Lyon Phelps
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter… — Cesar Aira
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush. — Hannah Kent
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their… — Janette Turner Hospital
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands… — Jean Genet
My jaw dropped open. Holy crows...There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy… — Unknown Author
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. — Michael Pollan
O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds… — Robert Pyle
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer… — Chuck Palahniuk
Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone… — Ernest Cline
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and… — George MacDonald
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not… — George Saunders
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual… — Jerzy Kosinski
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation.… — Lisa Ling
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. — Louis Aragon
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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