Bird Quotes

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

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Taste
  • Distinct
  • Extinct

• In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

  

  Clinton Scollard
  • Day
  • Wind
  • Murmur

• The Eagle is the only bird that doesn't fly away from a Storm, it Spreads its Wings and Rises above the Wind and the Storm carries it to a Higher Level....Spread Your Wings and Soar

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Fly
  • Away
  • Eagle

• The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.

  

  William Somervile
  • Night
  • Listening
  • Complaining

• Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Band
  • Bird
  • Thin

• We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Terror
  • Shapes

• Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Free
  • Bird
  • Drunk

• Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

  

  John Burnside
  • Art
  • Bird

• Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation. Glamour shimmered around him, and he gave us a wink. Later, lovebirds. Gimme a heads up when the kid arrives. 'Uncle Puck' will be waiting.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Words
  • Fighting

• 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
  • Great
  • Long
  • Mind

• I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Job
  • Walking

• I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Small
  • Water
  • Rising

• But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Leaving
  • Behinds
  • Flight

• Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Life
  • Long
  • German

• I'm sort of a strange bird.

  

  Ann Bancroft
  • Bird

• If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
  • Bird
  • Catch
  • Hen

• I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

  

  William Stafford
  • Said
  • Heard
  • Glad

• A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Book
  • Past
  • Mean

• "Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Fish
  • Pack
  • Werewolf

• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Food

• Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

  

  Catullus
  • Bird
  • Sparrows
  • Birdsong

• A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Hand
  • Hands

• Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Die
  • Alone

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