Thrush Quotes

#1. The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

John McLeod

#2. And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush.

Clinton Scollard

#3. Solitary the thrush,
The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the
settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
Song of the bleeding throat!

Walt Whitman

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

Robert Frost

#5. I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I suppose mine did.

Charles Dickens

#6. A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

Richard Wilbur

#7. True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship. (Desiring God, 81-82)

John Piper

#8. I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring.
Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.

Louis J. Halle

#9. I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. When the whistling-thrush released
A deep sweet secret on the trembling air;
Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows,
Black rose in the long ago summer,
This was your song:
It isn't time that's passing by,
It is you and I.

Ruskin Bond

#11. Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! haste ye, haste ye--pick, pick, pick!

Jacob Grimm

#12. The day of fire is coming, the thrush
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket ...

Anne Sexton

#13. The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.

William Blake

#14. Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.

Tasha Tudor

#15. How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

Elyne Mitchell

#17. O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

William Morris

#18. Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

John B. Tabb

#19. I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.

George Meredith

#20. The garrulous parrot
Please stay with your mouth shut.
The thrush in the willow grove
Has promised to sing a song for me

Tsangyang Gyatso

#21. Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

Ebenezer Elliott

#22. And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

Czeslaw Milosz

#23. The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.

Georg Trakl

#24. Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. What a laugh she had!
just like a thrush singing. And how pretty she had been in her cotton dresses and her large hats! She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Give me the gamblers and the dreamers.

D. Thrush

#28. When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

Ben Gibbard

#29. As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok

#30. I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

Tory Burch

#31. I believe I may kill you before the season is out, Sarah
remarked in much the same tone she used when saying, I believe I
shall have lemonade instead of tea.

Julia Quinn

#32. The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

Jamie Dimon

#34. Dying is only one thing to be sad over ... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz.

#35. I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you wile the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

Cheyanne Young

#36. It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

Vikas Swarup

#37. Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.

William Landay

#38. My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#39. Yeah, you're a regular Sherlock Holmes," Riq said.
"If you mean that I'm good at gathering clues for my brilliant deductions, then I take that as a compliment!

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#40. He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.

Thomas Merton

#41. I'm going to cut you," Georgiana murmured. "I'm going to mark that face of yours and show him what I'm capable of."
"He'd still love me," Elizabeth whispered. "It's a concept you could never understand, Georgiana.

Charlotte Featherstone