Top 34 Quotes About Hummingbirds
#1. He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.
Tom Robbins
#2. They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and air.
Lauren Oliver
#3. I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Ted Turner
#4. You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change.
It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.
Christine Caine
#5. Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.
Richard Preston
#6. These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
#7. Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
#8. Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
Megan McCafferty
#9. When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?
Lisa Kleypas
#10. Hummingbirds can't walk.
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#11. What if hummingbirds lost their wings? We had twenty-four hours to come back with an answer, and it took her precisely ten hours and seven minutes to text me back: Then it would rain for days and the world would know the rage of the grieving sky.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#12. A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.
Czeslaw Milosz
#13. What's the difference between depression and South America?
If you really had to, you could conquer South America.
Doug Westberg
#14. Hummingbirds laze around him. Fruit falls out of trees right into his open palms ... I've never felt this relaxed in my life. I keep forgetting my body and then have to go back and get it.
Jandy Nelson
#16. Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,
Mia Couto
#17. I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
Corey Taylor
#18. 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
#19. [Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
Will Cuppy
#21. Every morning, I'm visited by hummingbirds. I think it's nice, but maybe they're planning an attack?
Rutina Wesley
#22. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly
John Nichols
#23. Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
James Oppenheim
#24. 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
#25. Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. She'd heard people talk about electricity and butterflies; being with Royce was like a lightning storm and hummingbirds.
Cindi Madsen
#27. Nothing had the chance to be good nothing ever could
Mick Hucknall
#28. I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
Tig Notaro
#29. Hummingbirds certainly communicate important things to humankind about our world_including the power, grace and beauty that can be found in a very small being.
Leslie Forsberg
#30. Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything.
Claire Contreras
#31. A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!
Dave Beard
#32. I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
Anthony Mackie
#33. My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
Anne Waldman
#34. Most people do not know this, but hummingbirds also feed on small insects. Among the many insects that hummingbirds feed on, they especially like spiders, gnats, aphids, caterpillars, flies and mosquitoes. They are fairly aggressive hunters and insects can make up to 1/4 of their daily diet!
Susan G. Charles
