Birds Quotes
1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors
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In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,…
— Jonathan Clements
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Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.…
— Michael Shaara
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.
— Mo Yan
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one…
— Oscar Wilde
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer…
— Quentin Blake
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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had…
— Victor Hugo
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Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going…
— Daniel Quinn
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he…
— Homer
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I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always…
— Jim Parsons
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In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade…
— John Banville
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
— Ray Bradbury
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It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species…
— Stephen Colbert
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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only…
— Tennessee Williams
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
— Vikas Swarup
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and…
— Bram Stoker
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They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive…
— Don DeLillo
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Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
— Pablo Neruda
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their…
— Ray Bradbury
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Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
— Robert T. Bakker
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It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made…
— Rosamund Lupton
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As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the…
— Sebastian Faulks
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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
— Teresa Heinz
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