Top Bird Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Johannes Kepler
Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
- Johannes Kepler
Collection: Bird
Image of Franz Kafka
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
- Franz Kafka
Collection: Bird
Image of Andrew VanWyngarden
Even big-bird gets sad sometimes
- Andrew VanWyngarden
Collection: Bird
Image of Robinson Jeffers
Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.
- Robinson Jeffers
Collection: Bird
Image of Bridget Christie
Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.
- Bridget Christie
Collection: Bird
Image of Jenny Lind
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
- Jenny Lind
Collection: Bird
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Bird
Image of Kristin Kreuk
I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.
- Kristin Kreuk
Collection: Bird
Image of Jerzy Kosinski
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
- Jerzy Kosinski
Collection: Bird
Image of Anna Lee
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?
- Anna Lee
Collection: Bird
Image of Art Pepper
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.
- Art Pepper
Collection: Bird
Image of Gordon Hempton
The birds are already evolving, changing the way that they sing as a result of noise pollution. And we have yet to do that. We're still not communicating. We're not changing our words. We are not testing, not providing this new lexicon for noise-polluted areas.
- Gordon Hempton
Collection: Bird
Image of Gordon Hempton
You can listen to a birdsong, and from the content of the birdsong, you will be able to determine whether or not the bird grew up in a noise-polluted environment or whether it grew up in a pristine, clean environment. Isn't that incredible?
- Gordon Hempton
Collection: Bird
Image of Aoife O'Donovan
I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.
- Aoife O'Donovan
Collection: Bird
Image of Joan Miro
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.
- Joan Miro
Collection: Bird
Image of Joan Miro
I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.
- Joan Miro
Collection: Bird
Image of Mark Twain
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Bird
Image of John Henry Newman
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Bird
Image of Martial
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
- Martial
Collection: Bird
Image of Edwin Way Teale
As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.
- Edwin Way Teale
Collection: Bird
Image of James Patterson
So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.
- James Patterson
Collection: Bird
Image of Donald Miller
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
- Donald Miller
Collection: Bird
Image of Georges Braque
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.
- Georges Braque
Collection: Bird
Image of Ambrose Bierce
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: Bird
Image of Rumi
The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
- Rumi
Collection: Bird
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Bird
Image of Alexander Pope
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Bird
Image of Mark Twain
You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Bird
Image of Jane Hirshfield
Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
- Jane Hirshfield
Collection: Bird
Image of Rumi
While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.
- Rumi
Collection: Bird
Image of Oscar Wilde
Fantastic shadows of birds
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Bird
Image of Mitch Albom
Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?
- Mitch Albom
Collection: Bird
Image of Charles Spurgeon
Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Bird
Image of Mark Twain
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Bird
Image of Saadi
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.
- Saadi
Collection: Bird
Image of Charles M. Schulz
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.
- Charles M. Schulz
Collection: Bird
Image of David Ogilvy
Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind
- David Ogilvy
Collection: Bird
Image of Kami Garcia
Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.
- Kami Garcia
Collection: Bird
Image of Jim Butcher
...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
- Jim Butcher
Collection: Bird
Image of Rick Riordan
You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Bird
Image of Saadi
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds
- Saadi
Collection: Bird
Image of Alexander Pope
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Bird
Image of Nora Roberts
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: Bird
Image of Peter Ustinov
I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
- Peter Ustinov
Collection: Bird
Image of Henry David Thoreau
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Bird
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Birds never sing in caves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Bird
Image of Bill Vaughan
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Bird
Image of Vladimir Nabokov
Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Collection: Bird