Quote by Jack Kerouac

“A bird will only perch on a branch it trusts.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.”

— Tom Perrotta

“Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer’s whistle.”

— Ally Condie

“Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.”

— Rachel Caine

“A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Break my branches saw me into bits the birds will still sing in my roots”

— Anonymous

“My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.”

— Magnus Flyte

“So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their…

— Anthony Liccione

“For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being, ever yet was blessed with seeing a bird above his chamber door.” ”

— Bonnie Lamer

“We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the…

— Margaret Atwood

“a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough.”

— Charles Bukowski