Blackbird Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird. — Elliott Smith
• We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us. — Susan Griffin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. — Wallace Stevens
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. — Wallace Stevens
• 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
• I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. — George Takei
• I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. — Wallace Stevens
• 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
• 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:

• 3 Blackbird Quotes by Wallace Stevens
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Wilbur Smith
• 1 Blackbird Quote by John Fowles
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Holly Black
• 1 Blackbird Quote by John Green
• 1 Blackbird Quote by George Takei
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Poem Written By 12/13 Yr Old In Concentration Camp
• 1 Blackbird Quote by The Beatles
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Terry Kay
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Jennifer Armstrong
• 1 Blackbird Quote by John McLeod
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Elliott Smith
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Susan Griffin
• 1 Blackbird Quote by William Ernest Henley
• 1 Blackbird Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson