Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure… — Terry Tempest Williams
In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate… — Diane Ackerman
The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were… — Ekaterina Sedia
All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they… — Francis Brett Young
I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.… — George R. R. Martin
You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things,… — Heather O'Neill
It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds… — Herman Melville
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at… — Herman Melville
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving… — Jim Harrison
Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter… — Louisa May Alcott
Fantastic shadows of birds — Oscar Wilde
Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just… — Starhawk
Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do? — Suzanne Weyn
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have… — Charles Dickens
Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the… — David Mason
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It… — Haruki Murakami
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another. — Kevin Nealon
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven… — Maile Meloy
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is… — Malala Yousafzai
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. — Plutarch
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were… — Rabindranath Tagore
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. — Rae Armantrout

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