Birds Can Fly Quotes

#1. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

J.M. Barrie

#2. Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Carl Sagan

#3. The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

John Townsend Trowbridge

#4. 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 ... .

Oliver Evans

#5. The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?

John Townsend Trowbridge

#6. I love the idea of birds having human qualities ... I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

Aoife O'Donovan

#7. That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. - Chinese Proverb

Anonymous

#8. Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing - the reason they can fly.

Mary Oliver

#9. We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed to our faults that we can barely imagine what life would be like without them. The prospect of change makes us dizzy.

Matthieu Ricard

#10. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.

Cath Crowley

#11. Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

T.D. Jakes

#12. Fish got to swim, birds got to fly
I got to love one man till I die
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#13. So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.

Anthony Liccione

#14. But they didn't. Because simply being able to vote isn't the same as true equality. It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly. In

Caitlin Moran

#15. Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom ... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

Kazuya Minekura

#16. A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.

Leena Ahmad Almashat

#17. But they fly. It is what fledged birds must do, and she's always known that. The nest can't always be full.

Susan Fletcher

#18. We have never understood how birds manage to fly,
Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,
Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

Robert Bly

#19. In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

Michael Greger

#20. Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

#21. I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

Harun Yahya

#22. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Judy Garland

#23. The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. All I want is a peaceful place where flowers can bloom, birds can sing, and the mind can fly with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#25. The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.

Umberto Eco

#26. RVM Thoughts for Today -
Birds fly because they believe they can. All they have to do is open their wings. You too can fly to Fulfillment.

R.v.m.

#27. The Sun challenges us to Shine,the Clouds remind us to Move,the birds tell us We too can Fly and the sky tells us that there is no limit to our Dreams and Goals.-RVM

R.v.m.

#28. Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ... 'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

Alice Hoffman

#29. It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.

Caitlin Moran

#30. CROWN
Too much rain
loosens trees.
In the hills giant oaks
fall upon their knees.
You can touch parts
you have no right to
places only birds
should fly to.

Kay Ryan