Top 100 Bird Quotes
#1. A pink fluttering bird flew across her mind.
Anne Mallory
#2. Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.
John Gould
#3. I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'
Sharon Kay Penman
#4. Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
Caroll Spinney
#5. No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
#6. God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze.
Katie McGarry
#7. The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.
Wendy Gibbins
#9. Can a bird hate? Jon had slain the wildling Orell, but some part of the man remained within the eagle. The golden eyes looked out on him with cold malevolence.
George R R Martin
#10. The ostrich is a bird that lost its ability to fly. So 'unalienable rights' should be translated into 'mutable characteristics'.
Yuval Noah Harari
#12. I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
Sylvester Stallone
#13. People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
Byron Dorgan
#14. The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
Anthony De Mello
#15. Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes
The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon
That night when as summer waned I listened
To a languorous bird forever wroth
And the eternal noise of a river wide and dark
(The Voyager)
Pierre Albert-Birot
#16. I understand why she did it this way, face-first
it was because it made her feel like she was flying, like she was a bird.
Veronica Roth
#17. He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.
Sadie Jones
#18. As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady
#19. I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.
Matt Ridley
#20. Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.
Rachel Carson
#21. Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
Joni Mitchell
#22. Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'
Mark McKinnon
#23. The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
Douglas Adams
#24. I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
Shannon Hale
#25. I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again
Emily Dickinson
#26. [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.
James Wolcott
#27. Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.
Mark Twain
#28. Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
#29. Where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.
Sophy Burnham
#30. The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.
E. O. Wilson
#31. It was strange to be outside on a summer's evening. Rachel breathed in the scent of the delicate white flowers on the star jasmine and looked up at the sky. She saw what at first she thought was a bird, then realised it was a bat, and beyond that, in the sky, she saw thousands of stars.
Mary Grand
#32. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
Clint Eastwood
#33. The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.
Zack Snyder
#34. Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.
Ryokan
#35. Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.
Jon Stewart
#36. Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.
Larry Bird
#37. stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.
Terry Goodkind
#38. I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.
Caroll Spinney
#39. Lying in one's own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else's way; in the first case you're a man, and in the second - no better than a bird!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#40. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.
Margaret Atwood
#41. I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
Tahereh Mafi
#42. The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.
C.S. Lewis
#43. TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.
Susanna Centlivre
#44. In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#45. Life is like the flappy bird game. There's no pause nor another chance to live after dying and there could be endless obstacles. After all, it is just a matter of patience and perseverance to get a higher score.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
#46. A hawk reeled overhead with a rodent squirming in its beak, close enough so you could see the bird's black shiny eyes.
Mary Karr
#48. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
#49. If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings
V.C. Andrews
#50. I could use some seducing," he said. "I've had a bad couple of days."
A flash of irritation. "You drugged me and threw me on a bird for Sol."
"Good point." Hakan drew her closer. "I'll do the seducing.
Erin Kellison
#51. Then put in the interior a roasted goose and into its belly a roasted hen and in the belly of the hen a roasted pigeon and in the belly of the pigeon a roasted starling and in the belly of this a small bird, roasted or fried.
Candida Martinelli
#52. I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight ... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.
Annette Messager
#53. 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.
Enrique Penalosa
#54. The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#55. For the inactive windmills, even the winds from the bird wings is a hope!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
Dolly Parton
#57. If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.
Rio Ferdinand
#58. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Jeff Wheeler
#59. The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
Thomas Beecham
#60. We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. "Kill me!" it suggested as we passed by.
Elizabeth Mckenzie
#61. I guess everyone has a bird urge when they look down heights, a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail. Fear of heights is fear of a desire to jump.
Amruta Patil
#62. 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.
Tom Waits
#63. Jose unfroze and began looking around the room, picking up knickknacks and checking titles on the bookshelf. The parrot cracked pistachios and watched him.
"Dickhead," the parrot said.
I gave the bird some more nuts. I believe in positive reinforcement.
Rick Riordan
#64. Memphis - it's just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It's what they do. It's not following you, and it's not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.
Libba Bray
#65. A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.
Drew Barrymore
#66. She had written Darcy the letter and posted it from her husband's tenth-story office while he was away in some strumpet's bed. And then she'd transformed herself into a bird, and then an anvil, and then a corpse.
Thomas Mullen
#67. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#68. The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
John D. MacDonald
#69. I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
William Carlos Williams
#70. He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.
Walter Moers
#72. 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
#73. The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#74. The weight of his fingers on mine, like a bird landing on a branch. It was the drop of a match. I did not see that we were surrounded by tinder until I felt it burst into flames.
Hannah Kent
#75. I chuckled at this passage from Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs: "Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.
Kathy Reichs
#77. I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my chains!
Free my spirit!
Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul
with heaven dipped ink
Steven James
#78. And then I saw it - not below, where I had looked, but over my head, a vast and noble curve stretching away to either side, with white cloud flying between ourselves and it, a world all speckled over with blue and green like the egg of a wild bird.
Gene Wolfe
#80. What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.
David Almond
#81. Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life ...
Elizabeth Goudge
#82. Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.
William Shakespeare
#83. Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.
Russell Hoban
#84. Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
Amos Oz
#85. 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
#86. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#87. And when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for ts nest. So i give her my wing to hide under.
Maggie Stiefvater
#88. She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.
David Mixner
#89. Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence!
William Shakespeare
#90. I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.
CeeLo Green
#91. Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#92. Roo-ah-rooo-ahhh.
What's that?
It's the Cute Guy Alarm.
It sounds like a bird.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
Rumi
#94. The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#95. We had our arms round each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.
James Baldwin
#96. You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#97. Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
Jo Brand
#98. O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!
John Keats
#99. In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
John Adams
#100. Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe
