Best 1556 quotes in «bird quotes» category

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.