Bird Quotes

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

~ Douglas Adams

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

~ E. E. Cummings

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

~ Ivan Turgenev

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

~ Jenna Elfman

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

~ Joseph Conrad

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

~ Dick Van Dyke

London is a roost for every bird.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

~ Debi Mazar

Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

~ Caroll Spinney

I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

~ Deepika Padukone

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

~ John Lewis

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

~ Francis Beaumont

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

~ Emily Dickinson

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

~ Joan Fontaine

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

~ John Burroughs

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

~ William Blake

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

~ Alan Perlis

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

~ William Blake

My heart is like a singing bird.

~ Christina Rossetti

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

~ Coco Chanel

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

~ C. S. Lewis

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

~ Stewart Udall

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

~ Jenna Mccarthy

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

~ Malala Yousafzai