Easier Quote by Oscar Wilde

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches…

— Aldous Huxley

“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the vaguest idea…

— Douglas Woolf

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

— Rebecca West

“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

“But what Mayil liked the most was how birds behaved when they disagreed. If one bird was angry with another, it simply flew away.…

— Priyadarshini

“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

“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

...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming…

— David Foster Wallace

“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

“...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in…

— David Foster Wallace

“left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly”

— Diana Gabaldon

“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg