Bird Quotes

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Flying

• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Think
  • Heaven Of Worlds

• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  

  Betty Carter
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Gangsters

• He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Song

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

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

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Wanted
  • Bird
  • Weigh

• One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • Bird

• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Dance
  • Stars
  • Bird

• Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Bird
  • Sing
  • Throat

• A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Wise
  • Wood
  • Owl

• I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Dog
  • Eight
  • Fishes

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • High

• It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Bird

• Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Heaven

• A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Space
  • Fly

• Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

  

  John McCrae
  • Rain
  • Restless
  • Creeps

• Your righteous eyes, your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move, the air in front of you blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation: beer bottles slaughtered by the side of the road, bird- skulls bleaching in the sunset.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Air

• Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Fly
  • Swim
  • MMA

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