Bird Quotes

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Feathers predate birds.

You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.