Bird Quotes

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

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.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

The bird loves her nest.

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.

You put a big bird in a small cage, it'll sing you a song

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.