Bird Quote by Ralph Hodgson

I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.//…

— Ralph Hodgson

I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around…

— Natalie Merchant

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little…

— Harold Monro

People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have…

— Uzo Aduba

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

— Janet Fitch

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.

— Hannah Kent

“The three flower shops were obliterated. The petals of the once-dewy flowers and their sellers' flesh burnt together. The people reacted and, unlike the…

— Rohit Gore

“There was a little optometrist shop on south Broadway tucked in between a pizza joint and what amounted to a head shop where you…

— Gary Reilly

“...somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with…

— Marisha Pessl

“ever seen for sale in one place. They stocked volumes on”

— Geoffrey Durham

“The black market was closing. The last sellers and buyers clustered behind an out-of-business toy store in Brooklyn, where the road smelled of trash…

— Helen Rena

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan