Children-s-picture-books Quote by Priyadarshini

“-The little comfort of love? -Is that comfort so little? -Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.”

— Tenesse Williams

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

— Lorrie Moore

“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

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to…

— Norton Juster

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“It is a stupendous fact about nature that the territorial disputes of thousands of species [of birds] are something like artistic contests — song…

— Charles Hartshorne

“For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the…

— George Orwell

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

— Dale Carnegie

“She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she…

— Katherine Catmull

“Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert