Birds Quote by Mark Obmascik

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“On she prattled, friendly as a parrot. But my loyalties were elsewhere. And the flavour of Pippa's kiss - bittersweet and strange - stayed…

— Donna Tartt

“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when fields are…

— Theognis

“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

— Kate Chopin

“Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only…

— Colin Higgins

“when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she…

— Kate Chopin

“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in…

— Bryce Courtenay

“She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling…

— George Orwell

“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing, That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures Long for flight, but the larks above the…

— Charles Todd

“Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of blood and…

— Richard Bach

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the…

— H.G. Wells