Best 1556 quotes in «bird quotes» category

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time.

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.