Bird Quotes

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo!

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

I don't look like no kiwi bird

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.