Bird Quotes

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

The early bird catches the worm.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.