Bird Quotes

The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

All the birds love Touche Eclat. It's a (concealer) pen that gets rid of eye bags. But I'm quite happy otherwise. I train a lot.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

Feathers predate birds.

I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.