Birds Quotes
1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors
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Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from…
— Katherine Dunn
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The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating…
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say
— Leonard Cohen
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If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
— Vikas Swarup
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Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able…
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
— William Saroyan
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They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless,…
— Anne Rice
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Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
— Brian Andreas
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The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember…
— Brian Andreas
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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
— Charles Bowden
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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the…
— Cliff Martinez
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I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.
— Cynthia Hand
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We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows…
— Daisy Ashford
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like…
— Emma Donoghue
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They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for…
— Frederick Buechner
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Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and…
— Gloria Whelan
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If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him…
— Janet Fitch
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It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not.…
— Neil Gaiman
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I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my…
— Omar Khayyam
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He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
— Anthony Burgess
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