Bird Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Sir Bird preens next to me, tucking feathers into place with a low noise in his throat almost like he’s talking to himself. A…

— Kiersten White

“I can't explain the birds to you even if I tried. In the early morning, when the sun's rays peek over the mountain and…

— Portia de Rossi

“Birdwatching, at first glance, seems like a pursuit designed specifically for people who find stamp collecting too stimulating. But oh, how wrong they would…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about…

— William Henry Hudson

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

— Joseph Joubert

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is…

— John Burroughs

“Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored.”

— Julian Barnes

“She sketched songbirds when she was supposed to be minding her lessons, and she sketched church mice when she was meant to be at…

— Tessa Dare

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

— Eva Zeisel

“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in…

— Bryce Courtenay

“I began to use the same principles-observation, consistency, and attention to detail, to try to communicate with other birds. Through experimentation with what worked…

— Michele Raffin

Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel…

— Stuart Immonen