Bird Quote by Rae Armantrout

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them…

— Quentin Blake

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

— Sun Tzu

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only…

— Gregory Maguire

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

— Richard Jefferies

“Humans are so blind, their eyes on the ground, themselves always at the center. Birds know themselves not to be at the center of…

— Gregory Maguire

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is…

— Sun Tzu

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be…

— Lawrence Hargrave

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

— Emily Dickinson

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they…

— Ted Rall

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

— Joshua Slocum

“Instead, each bird is interacting with up to seven close neighbors, making individual movement decisions based on maintaining velocity and distance from fellow flock…

— Jennifer Ackerman

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his…

— Michael Ondaatje