Bird Quotes

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.