Bird Quote by Esther Forbes

“around at the rocky landscape. "Are we sure this is the island”

— Michael Ziegler

“Gulls fly overhead While waves slap against rocks From dusk till dawn.”

— Abigail George

“The dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word. He felt only that he was welcome and that this…

— Richard Bach

“Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove…

— Emil Cioran

“Through the night, the black canyon groaned & heaved & gurgled, as if we slept in the belly of a coldblooded beast. I slept…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Gulls, aeroplaning above the chimney pots, were calling that he must talk to Laura about his plans. He needed no telling, for once in…

— Alan Sillitoe

“I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking of the island as it…

— J.M. Coetzee

“He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls’ eggs to make a meal. But embryo chicks were…

— Knut Hamsun

“Tom tingled at the knowledge that he was the only one to hear any of it: the only living man for the better part…

— M.L. Stedman

“Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.”

— Cathleen Schine

“To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile with me.…

— Wu Cheng-en

“The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November…

— Jonathan Lethem