Bird Quotes

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and... filled with stuffing.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.