Bird Quotes
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!
John Keats
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.
William Shakespeare
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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
Martin Parr
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Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram
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In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.
Subcomandante Marcos
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
Ivan Pavlov
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Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.
Cam'ron
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As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
William James
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To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
William Shakespeare
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No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
Banesh Hoffmann
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Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?
Tim Finn
Crowded House
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We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.
Allen Lacy
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Sergei Eisenstein
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
William Shakespeare
