Quote by Paulette Jiles

“The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Nearly never kills a bird”

— Harper Lee

“Can you do any nature sounds, birdcalls?" "Birdcalls?" He'd cracked from the pressure. "In case you need me.”

— Myra McEntire

“I did not see where the bullets were going, but little songbirds flew down from the trees, confused and worried. They perched on my…

— Daoud Hari

“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

“He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.”

— Ally Condie

“We don't kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air and flew.”

— Madison Smartt Bell

“I hate to point out the obvious, but here's this tiny bird that's been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A…

— Kevin Kwan

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say after a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead...everything…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no…

— Jodi Picoult

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

— Donna Tartt