Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should… — Colm Toibin
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. — Gary Snyder
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly. — Lewis Carroll
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees. — Naomi Shihab Nye
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex… — Tahereh Mafi
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as… — William Lyon Phelps
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter… — Cesar Aira
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush. — Hannah Kent
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands… — Jean Genet
My jaw dropped open. Holy crows...There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy… — Unknown Author
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. — Michael Pollan
O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds… — Robert Pyle
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer… — Chuck Palahniuk
Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone… — Ernest Cline
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and… — George MacDonald
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not… — George Saunders

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