Bird Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least…

— John Zakour

All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had…

— Toni Morrison

“Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we no longer…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

— Jean Paul

“Chamomile are feathers from the wings of seraphim angels, thrown as an offering to the earth for each bird hunted in the sky.”

— Corina Abdulahm Negura

“Calliope feathers on the wings of my hopes and my dreams, To some day fly high in the lavender sky. A warm wind caresses…

— Sherri Lynea Gerek

Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And…

— John Milton

Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with…

— Laini Taylor

Four wings, two hearts, but only one soul. They connect in the middle, but are separated by a thin line of ash. Its what…

— Jessica Sorensen

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.…

— Victor Hugo

“Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a…

— George Pendle

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of…

— Laini Taylor