Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a… — Kathryn Lasky
The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures… — Malcolm Lowry
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and… — P.G. Wodehouse
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. — Peter Weir
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs. — Shusaku Endo
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether… — Thomas Hobbes
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they… — Antonio Damasio
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to… — Ellen Gilchrist
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her… — Mervyn Peake
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden… — Rabindranath Tagore
Feathers predate birds. — Robert T. Bakker
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did… — Terry Tempest Williams
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been. — Vera Pavlova
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds… — Catherynne M. Valente
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people… — Gale Norton
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used… — Margaret Atwood
I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves. — Ross Macdonald

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