Bird Quote by Mary Oliver

“Concealed from the public eye, snug within his coffin, Mr Bird looked as he had looked in life. Despite his size and the flowing…

— William Trevor

“All around him, for as far as he could see, lay a rough land strewn with rocks, with not a drop of water, nor…

— Haruki Murakami

“he recalled nothing but a bird (or birds, or something bird-like…he simply couldn’t remember) and like the first time, he awoke utterly convinced”

— Brian Harmon

“In fact, he could remember nothing about the dream except that there was something about a bird, and even that vague detail was so…

— Brian Harmon

“In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else…

— Alessandro Baricco

“She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.”

— Lisa Wingate

“Nobody really knew anything. People lived; they went here and there about the earth and rode through forests; so much seemed to challenge or…

— Hermann Hesse

“If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A bright gray sky woke me, sunlight diffused through high thin clouds. That, and the extraordinarily cheerful sound of some bird I did not…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“As he enjoyed the evening, his eyes kept being drawn to the shadow by the shed. Something was in the shadow. It looked like…

— C.L. McCourt

“The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”

— Craig Froman

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore