Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Unknown Author
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went… — Alexander McCall Smith
Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch. — Howie Dorough
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the… — Mother Jones
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. — Guy Davenport
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds. — Vinton Cerf
All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle. — Daniel Bernoulli
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants… — Bill Mollison
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest. — Antonio Carlos Jobim
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced… — Ken Wilber
One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge… — Daniel Tammet
One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more time here, and if… — Todd Agnew
God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words. — Anna Hempstead Branch
Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian. — Alan Feduccia
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . . — William Wordsworth
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down… — William F. Longgood
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees,… — Audrey Hepburn
The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers… — Christopher Columbus
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. — Isaac Watts
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. — John Masefield
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when… — Joseph Wood Krutch
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men… — Al-MaÊ¿arri

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