Top 69 Hummingbird Quotes
#1. Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
James Oppenheim
#2. She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
Dennis Vickers
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
Shailene Woodley
#7. 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
#8. I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.
Ilona Andrews
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
Karin Slaughter
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I think.
Mary Oliver
#17. He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
Karen Chance
#18. may my faith always be
at the end of the day
like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.
Sanober Khan
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I swear that child has more energy than a hummingbird on sweet tea.
Nancy Naigle
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. ...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
#32. 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
#33. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Charles Bukowski
#34. I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#35. Nd where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
Chogyam Trungpa
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
Henry Miller
#44. 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
#45. Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes.
Amanda Leigh
#46. On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it's invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily.
Truman Capote
#47. Human babies are only tiny for an instant - their growing up is as swift as the beat of a hummingbird's wing.
Kelly Barnhill
#48. Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
Megan McCafferty
#49. Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
#50. You're flightier than a hummingbird on crack.
Lou Harper
#51. 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
#52. The butterflies I get every time we're together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird's.
Ashley Wilcox
#53. 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
#54. [Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
Will Cuppy
#55. Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.
Ada Limon
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Hope was a hummingbird. Tiny in size and fragile by nature. Beautiful.
T.S. Joyce
#59. Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight
Kathryn Lasky
#60. Good night, my hummingbird," Carmine whispered. "I'll keep you in my dreams.
J.M. Darhower
#61. The wine- it made her limbs loose and liquid, made her feel that a hummingbird had taken the place of her heart.
Jodi Picoult
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
T. S. Eliot
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness.
Mary Oliver
#68. 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
#69. 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
