Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds — Saadi
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some. — Jean Rhys
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings.… — Anatoli Boukreev
Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep… — Felix Houphouet-Boigny
In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun… — Jack Prelutsky
Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity. — Toller Cranston
Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing. — Michael Gilbert
In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We… — Subcomandante Marcos
If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics… — Lewis Thomas
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in… — Scott Cunningham
Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as… — Olav H. Hauge
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.… — Ruskin Bond
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there… — Larry Levis
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love… — Henry David Thoreau
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light. — Mark Nepo
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of… — Deepak Chopra
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher
Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. — Roger Tory Peterson
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped… — Seth Godin
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came.… — Unknown Author
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — HalldÃ³r Laxness
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began… — Hokusai

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