Blackbirds Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
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
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river… — Henry David Thoreau
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
At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. — Wallace Stevens
I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel… — Bobbie Ann Mason
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
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the… — Lauren DeStefano
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us. — Susan Griffin
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. — Anne Stevenson
We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti — Charles Bukowski
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
Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. — John Greenleaf Whittier
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's… — Dylan Thomas
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

Who Wrote These Blackbirds Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Blackbirds Quotes as follows: