Bird Quotes

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

As they say - a bird in the hand is worth one in the bush.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help".

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.

What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.