Blackbird Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty…
— Terry Kay
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt…
— Jennifer Armstrong
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The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
— John McLeod
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
— Elliott Smith
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
— Susan Griffin
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The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him…
— William Ernest Henley
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in…
— Wilbur Smith
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
— Wallace Stevens
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.…
— John Fowles
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maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an…
— Holly Black
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
— Wallace Stevens
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Augustus: “You probably need some rest.†Me: “I’m okay.†Augustus: “Okay.†(Pause.) “What are you thinking about?†Me: “You.†Augustus: “What about me?†Me: “‘I…
— John Green
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I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
— George Takei
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
— Wallace Stevens
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He doesn't know the world at all who stays in his nest and doesn't go out. He doesn't know what birds know best, nor what…
— Poem Written By 12/13 Yr Old In Concentration Camp
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Blackbird singing in the dead of the night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.
— The Beatles
Who Wrote These Blackbird Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Blackbird Quotes as follows: