Arrogance Quote by Hal Borland

“A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Since birds took flight, they were closer to the spirit world than man was, so ignoring a message from a bird might mean missing…

— Jodi Picoult

Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the…

— Demetri Martin

We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it…

— Johannes Kepler

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of…

— Theodore Roethke

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds…

— Khalil Gibran

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain…

— Victor Hugo

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not a face; this is the other part of…

— Mary Oliver