Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,… — Henry Beston
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are… — Robert Graves
On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built. — Hafez
Tell your little mascot to get out of here, cause I have no problem flippin' the bird. — Edge
Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught. — Eric Berne
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun… — Reginald Heber
The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the… — Reginald Heber
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him… — Khalil Gibran
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound… — Elwyn Brooks White
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? — Charles Spurgeon
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In… — T.H. White
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the… — William Shakespeare
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love… — John Kendrick Bangs
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to… — Michel de Montaigne
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. — William Shakespeare
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till… — William Shakespeare
The eagle suffers little birds to sing. — William Shakespeare
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. — Ingrid Newkirk

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