Bird Quotes

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person!

Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

A bird is joy incarnate.

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

Fantastic shadows of birds

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.