Bird Quotes

The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

She flew like a bird, only faster.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

This being-nice crap was for thebirds.

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing And let your love bind you to all livin' things And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean That's the reason.

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?