Bird Quote by Patrick MacGill

“It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked out, low and brilliant. The…

— Mary Stewart

“Before it had awoke to die on the instant of its waking, a score of bells and clocks had shouted midday and for a…

— Mervyn Peake

“Eventually everyone came out of the water and for hours and hours and hours we lay under the tree and talked and read and…

— Meg Rosoff

“A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once…

— Anne Rice

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

— Enid Bagnold

“Remember - no matter what happened the day before, the birds still wake up singing.”

— Sandy Snavely

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one...…

— Anonymous

“The carol was giddily busy and incessant, but my eyes saw nothing. That bird never stops and must, it appears, sing out the whole…

— Sōseki Natsume

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot…

— Charles Dickens

“Outside a sparrow was swaying back and forth on the branch of a birch tree. A tiny drop fell away from beneath his tail.…

— Vasily Aksyonov

“Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. All the different bells…

— Philip Pullman