Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — Unknown Author
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it. — John of the Cross
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call… — Swami Satchidananda
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches… — Rodney Dangerfield
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything… — Pablo Picasso
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out. — George Carlin
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It… — Louis C. K.
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. — William Maxwell
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not… — E. O. Wilson
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the… — Paulo Coelho
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird… — D. H. Lawrence
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars… — Thomas Berry
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead… — Roger Tory Peterson
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare

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