Bird Quotes

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.