Top Bird Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Bird quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Marjorie M. Liu
He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.
- Marjorie M. Liu
Collection: Bird
Image of Lilith Saintcrow
Are you listening, little bird?
- Lilith Saintcrow
Collection: Bird
Image of Ivan Turgenev
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
- Ivan Turgenev
Collection: Bird
Image of Ed Begley, Jr.
Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.
- Ed Begley, Jr.
Collection: Bird
Image of Gregory Maguire
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Bird
Image of Halldór Laxness
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
- Halldór Laxness
Collection: Bird
Image of Dean Young
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
- Dean Young
Collection: Bird
Image of P. L. Travers
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
- P. L. Travers
Collection: Bird
Image of Guy Davenport
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
- Guy Davenport
Collection: Bird
Image of Mark Kurlansky
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye
- Mark Kurlansky
Collection: Bird
Image of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Collection: Bird
Image of Mary Ruefle
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
- Mary Ruefle
Collection: Bird
Image of William Stafford
I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
- William Stafford
Collection: Bird
Image of Thomas Beecham
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
- Thomas Beecham
Collection: Bird
Image of Ieyasu Tokugawa
Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Collection: Bird
Image of Olivier Messiaen
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
- Olivier Messiaen
Collection: Bird
Image of Olivier Messiaen
Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
- Olivier Messiaen
Collection: Bird
Image of Winston Groom
Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.
- Winston Groom
Collection: Bird
Image of Buddy Wakefield
You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.
- Buddy Wakefield
Collection: Bird
Image of Suzanne Weyn
Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?
- Suzanne Weyn
Collection: Bird
Image of Mike Carey
Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.
- Mike Carey
Collection: Bird
Image of Edwin Way Teale
To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.
- Edwin Way Teale
Collection: Bird
Image of Han Nolan
I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.
- Han Nolan
Collection: Bird
Image of Linda Hogan
The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
- Linda Hogan
Collection: Bird
Image of Henri Michaux
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
- Henri Michaux
Collection: Bird
Image of Roger Tory Peterson
The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Collection: Bird
Image of Roger Tory Peterson
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Collection: Bird
Image of Roger Tory Peterson
Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Collection: Bird
Image of Alejandra Pizarnik
You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
- Alejandra Pizarnik
Collection: Bird
Image of Robert Ardrey
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.
- Robert Ardrey
Collection: Bird
Image of Carly Simon
The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
- Carly Simon
Collection: Bird
Image of Cristina Garcia
You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.
- Cristina Garcia
Collection: Bird
Image of Frances Power Cobbe
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
- Frances Power Cobbe
Collection: Bird
Image of Yves Rossy
I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
- Yves Rossy
Collection: Bird
Image of Joel Chandler Harris
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Bird
Image of Wynn Bullock
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
- Wynn Bullock
Collection: Bird
Image of Eva Le Gallienne
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
- Eva Le Gallienne
Collection: Bird
Image of Gerry Lopez
The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird
- Gerry Lopez
Collection: Bird
Image of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Collection: Bird
Image of Gabriel Macht
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.
- Gabriel Macht
Collection: Bird
Image of Ashanti
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
- Ashanti
Collection: Bird
Image of Edmond Jabes
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
- Edmond Jabes
Collection: Bird
Image of Anzia Yezierska
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
- Anzia Yezierska
Collection: Bird
Image of John Townsend Trowbridge
The birds can fly, An' why can't I?
- John Townsend Trowbridge
Collection: Bird
Image of Belva Plain
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain
Collection: Bird
Image of Jeff Chapman
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.
- Jeff Chapman
Collection: Bird
Image of Jean Craighead George
Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.
- Jean Craighead George
Collection: Bird
Image of Darrell Royal
If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Bird
Image of Josephine Hart
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
- Josephine Hart
Collection: Bird