Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in… — Elizabeth von Arnim
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus,… — Hesiod
I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit… — Jackson Pearce
I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and… — Kabir
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her… — Katie Roiphe
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of… — Mark Haddon
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… — Michael Ondaatje
Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. — Mike Thompson
She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been… — Neil Gaiman
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Like the birds I will fly. — Victoria Forester
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I… — Yann Martel
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and… — Aldous Huxley
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand… — Duane Michals
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting,… — Elizabeth Hoyt
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the… — Ishmael Beah
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you… — Joe Dunthorne
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move… — Richard Preston
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You… — Nhat Hanh
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali

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