Birds Quotes
1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors
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More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
— Toni Morrison
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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
— Virginia Woolf
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Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a…
— William Morris Hunt
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
— Barnett Newman
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A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds…
— Cyril Connolly
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it…
— Enid Blyton
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll…
— Jim Harrison
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It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our…
— Kathy Acker
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There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.
— Meredith Willson
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I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
— Omar Khayyam
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Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people…
— Stanislav Grof
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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
— Dan Chaon
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If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
— Darrell Royal
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This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using…
— Karen Kingsbury
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In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't…
— Katherine Catmull
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That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking…
— Margarita Engle
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The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
— Sun Tzu
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Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity…
— Tove Jansson
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There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
— Denis Norden
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Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines…
— Geoff Ryman
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
— Oscar Wilde
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan…
— Richard Bach
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