Top 69 Hummingbird Quotes
#1. He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.
Pierce Brown
#2. Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
Agnes De Mille
#3. You're flightier than a hummingbird on crack.
Lou Harper
#4. Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
#5. Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
Megan McCafferty
#6. Human babies are only tiny for an instant - their growing up is as swift as the beat of a hummingbird's wing.
Kelly Barnhill
#7. On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it's invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily.
Truman Capote
#8. Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes.
Amanda Leigh
#9. Nd where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. Either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
Henry Miller
#11. When the griffin moved, they fluttered so fast, they blurred and buzzed like the wings of the world's largest, most vicious hummingbird.
Rick Riordan
#12. It doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom
seen
or that we are too senseless to go
insane.
coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
coffee.
Charles Bukowski
#13. Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
Chogyam Trungpa
#14. My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
Anne Lamott
#15. Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
Laurel Lea
#16. My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird's wings.
Ned Hayes
#18. My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness.
Mary Oliver
#19. The butterflies I get every time we're together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird's.
Ashley Wilcox
#20. The cute little fish had big eyes and a rounded body with black polka dots and fins on either side of him that fluttered like hummingbird wings.
"He's staring at me."
"He knows a beautiful thing when he sees it.
Robin Bielman
#21. the "hummingbird effect." An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.
Steven Johnson
#22. Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
T. S. Eliot
#23. Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.
Mira Bartok
#24. This may be one of the most astonishing, and tragic, hummingbird effects in all of twentieth-century technology: someone builds a machine to listen to sound waves bouncing off icebergs, and a few generations later, millions of female fetuses are aborted thanks to that very same technology.
Steven Johnson
#25. The wine- it made her limbs loose and liquid, made her feel that a hummingbird had taken the place of her heart.
Jodi Picoult
#26. A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies;
While wakes the nodding blossom
But just too late to see
What lip hath touched her bosom
And drained her rosary.
John B. Tabb
#27. Good night, my hummingbird," Carmine whispered. "I'll keep you in my dreams.
J.M. Darhower
#28. Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight
Kathryn Lasky
#29. Hope was a hummingbird. Tiny in size and fragile by nature. Beautiful.
T.S. Joyce
#30. You still love her?" he asked curiously.
Carmine nodded. "I think I always will. Regardless of all this bullshit, she'll always be my hummingbird.
J.M. Darhower
#31. My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums ...
Mary Oliver
#32. Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.
Ada Limon
#33. [Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
Will Cuppy
#34. There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.
Morris Sheppard
#35. Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...
Sam Andrew
#36. He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
Karen Chance
#37. Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I think.
Mary Oliver
#38. If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.
Rabindranath Tagore
#39. Don't you ever forget that, hummingbird. You can go anywhere you want to go, be anything you want to be. Play because you love it and for no other reason. The day you stop loving it is the day it becomes a job. Making music should never be a job.
Tara Sivec
#40. One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.
Graciela Limon
#41. Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
Karin Slaughter
#42. In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.
Francesca Lia Block
#43. All I could think of was the phrase my dad's father used to say to him when I was a kid, "Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass," and I think I'd done just that.
Brynn Myers
#44. Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
James Oppenheim
#45. Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
Ted Nelson
#46. I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.
Ilona Andrews
#47. We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward.
Amit Singhal
#48. I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
Shailene Woodley
#49. But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#50. You'll have me," Cam whispered. "You'll have me, hummingbird. I'm your fate - even if you won't admit it yet.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#52. She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
Dennis Vickers
#53. The resurrection of the morning.
The mystery of the night.
The hummingbird's wings.
The excitement of thunder.
The rainbow in the waterfall.
Wild mustard, that rough blaze of the fields.
Mary Oliver
#54. I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#55. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Charles Bukowski
#56. Lexie's baby. Four weeks ... not quite a quarter of an inch: a tiny gemstone, a single spark of color slipping between your fingers and through the cracks and gone. A heart the size of a fleck of glitter and vibrating like a hummingbird, seeded with a billion things that would never happen now.
Tana French
#57. ...It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.
Karin Kallmaker
#58. Calliope feathers on the wings of my hopes and my dreams,
To some day fly high in the lavender sky.
A warm wind caresses my face,
And my heart overflows with grace.
The dawn breaks to herald a dazzling new day,
As I hover, zip, zoom The Hummingbird Way.
Sherri Lynea Gerek
#59. I wanted to be a hummingbird.
It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always
to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes.
Sometimes though, the thought exhausts me and
I want to be a slow horse, a tennis shoe.
Ada Limon
#60. By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
Calvin Trillin
#61. may my faith always be
at the end of the day
like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.
Sanober Khan
#62. I swear that child has more energy than a hummingbird on sweet tea.
Nancy Naigle
#63. I Just want people to see me," she said. "I want to walk into a room and have them know I'm there. I just don't want to be invisible anymore."
"I see you, hummingbird
J.M. Darhower
#64. A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter.
Sarah Addison Allen
#65. Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.
Catherine McKenzie
#66. Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'
Lesley Nicol
#67. Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. - RAYMOND CARVER
Catherine McKenzie
#69. Her thoughts had flown outward darting and dipping with the hummingbird moths that flocked by the thousands over head,as she wondered, with a wild ,timpani heart where her angel had gone.
Laini Taylor
