Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all. — George MacDonald
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. — Nhat Hanh
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval
At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon,… — Robert Grudin
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the… — Gregory of Nazianzus
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of… — Gautama Buddha
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees.… — Unknown Author
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain… — Li Bai
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and… — Unknown Author
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure — Simon Barnes
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes
Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. — Charlemagne
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places… — Stephen Mitchell
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together. — Unknown Author
Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy — Killa Kyleon
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. — Henry David Thoreau
The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is… — Rajneesh
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon
A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me… — Blaise Cendrars
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of… — Roger Tory Peterson
The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life… — Roger Tory Peterson

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