Bluebird Quotes

#1. but on this night
the universe is crawling
on skin soft with expectation
and I have untied silk rhymes
lifting the bluebird's cleavage
you might as well have caged it
between your colored doubts

Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

#2. Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#3. A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.

John Burroughs

#5. The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

Cole Porter

#7. O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best ...

John Burroughs

#8. Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird ...

Paul McCartney

#9. Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

Gretchen Rubin

#10. For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment
the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country
no bluebird in spring!

John Burroughs

#11. Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

Woody Allen

#12. THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.

John Sandford

#13. In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng ...

Robert Frost

#14. Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale's head.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#16. I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

Joseph McCarthy

#17. I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#18. She sang in harmony. Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr. Bluebird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower.

Terry Pratchett

#19. She watched him adoringly, and brightly, and exultantly - in the way you can watch only when you are wearing a new hat, a hat with a bluebird of happiness on the brim.

Teffi

#20. It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

Sigurd F. Olson

#21. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Gary Larson

#22. Some people think it's comforting to imagine being flung over a rainbow when you die, grabbed by your ankles by a bluebird, and swung into the void.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#23. Her bluebird of happiness is teal.

Allison Strine

#24. As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

Arthur Cleveland Bent

#26. 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

#27. Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

Lin Yutang

#28. A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Edwin Way Teale

#29. The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

Thomas Roberts

#30. Look up here, I'm in heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen,
Everybody knows me now
( ... )
This way or no way
You know I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now, ain't that just like me?

David Bowie

#31. There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him.

Charles Bukowski

#32. In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

Christopher Cross

#33. and over our heads will float the bluebird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be. But before this comes to pass we must cultivate the lost art of lying

Oscar Wilde

#34. And so here we go bluebird,
Back to the sky on your own.
Oh, let him go bluebird,
Ready to fly,
You and I,
Here we go.
Here we go.

Sara Bareilles

#35. Faith is a bluebird you see from afar, it's for real and as sure as the first evening star. You can't touch it or buy it or wrap it up tight, but it's there all the same, making things turn out right.

Rufus Wainwright

#36. An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Robert Breault

#37. Did you know that baby,
You're the bluebird in my sky,
I only want to make you happy
Because I love you see you fly

Nick Carter

#38. But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.

Scott Snyder

#39. How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

John Burroughs

#40. For the right woman, we all strive to be a man worth his salt.

Kristy McCaffrey

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

John Townsend Trowbridge