Bird Quotes

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

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

I know why the caged bird sings.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.