Bird Quote by Harper Lee

The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost as hard-and…

— Havilah Babcock

“I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.”

— Terry Ryan

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and…

— Harper Lee

“Nearly never kills a bird”

— Harper Lee

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue…

— Earl Blumenauer

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

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

— Nina Schuyler

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start…

— Red Auerbach