Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Opportunity is a bird that never perches. — Claude Maxwell MacDonald
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear… — William C. Bryant
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. — Unknown Author
A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week,… — Unknown Author
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird… — Unknown Author
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. — Barnett Newman
Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much. — Priscilla Welch
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way… — Omar Khayyam
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. — Maya Angelou
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held… — Francois Fenelon
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one… — Carl Linnaeus
Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not… — Goswami Kriyananda
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied… — Alan Cohen
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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