Birds Quotes

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

~ Alfred Hitchcock

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

~ Mark Nepo

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

~ Robert Lynd

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

~ Dean Young

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

~ K. Hari Kumar

Rain, rain falling downDown, down on the goundAll the birds go in the treesThey don't like the rain, you see.

~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

~ Sun Tzu

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

~ Harold Monro

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

~ Andrew Smith

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. - Chinese Proverb

~ Anonymous

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...

~ Steven Herrick

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

~ Kenneth Grahame

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

On harsh, frigid January days, when the winds are relentless and the snow piles up around us, I often think of our small feathered friends back on the Third Line. I wonder if the old feeder is still standing in the orchard and if anyone thinks to put out a few crumbs and some bacon drippings for our beautiful, hungry, winter birds. In the stark, white landscape they provided a welcome splash of colour and their songs gave us hope through the long, silent winter.

~ Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

~ Plutarch

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

~ Joseph Roth

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The infinite loves of two birds were broken. I and You were the two birds. The strong pillars of faith, trust, hope, conviction and whatever that makes a strong building, the building is obviously known as relations, were now go down. Those pillars lose their strength. They were no more able to balance my and yours’s infinite love..Tamanna breaks down

~ Prakhar Srivastav

If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and a thousand interesting things. But happily the collector prevents all that, either killing with his own hands or, by buying extravagantly, procuring people of the lower classes to kill such eccentricities as appear. ...Eccentricity, in fact, is immorality--think over it again if you do not think so now--just as eccentricity in one's way of thinking is madness (I defy you to find another definition that will fit all the cases of either); and if a species is rare it follows that it is not Fitted to Survive. The collector is after all merely like the foot soldier in the days of heavy armour-he leaves the combatants alone and cuts the throats of those who are overthrown. So one may go through England from end to end in the summer time and see only eight or ten commonplace wild flowers, and the commoner butterflies, and a dozen or so common birds, and never be offended by any breach of the monotony.

~ H.g. Wells

Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.

~ Laura Gentile

It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wide immediately after birth, hissing greedily to show the backs of their throats, in these lizards with frail, naked bodies of hunchbacks—the future peacocks, pheasants, grouse or condors. Placed in cotton wool, in baskets, this dragon brood lifted blind, walleyed heads on thin necks, croaking voicelessly from their dumb throats.

~ Bruno Schulz

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

~ E.b. White

Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:It listens, listens. Taller trees beyondListen. The moon at the unruffled pondStares. And you sing, you sing.That star-enchanted song falls through the airFrom lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;And all the night you sing.My dreams are flowers to which you are a beeAs all night long I listen, and my brainReceives your song, then loses it againIn moonlight on the lawn.Now is your voice a marble high and white,Then like a mist on fields of paradise,Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,Then breaks, and it is dawn.

~ Harold Monro

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

~ Katherine Catmull

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

~ Aesop

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

~ Claude Monet

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

~ William Henry Hudson

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

~ Tod Wodicka

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

~ Emily Dickinson

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

~ John James Audubon

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

~ Kevin Powers

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

~ Muhammad Ali

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

~ Wilbur Wright

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

~ Richard Branson

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

~ Pat Buckley

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

~ Aesop

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

~ Roger Tory Peterson