Bird Quotes

Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

Neal Barnard
- Animal
- Dog
- Dogs
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

Nell Newman

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
- Up
- Bird
- Beach
Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

Jim Harrison
- Bird
- Fishing
- Hunting
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

William Butler Yeats
I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

Kyle Dunnigan
- Present
- Animal
- Bird
The reform and opening up of China hasn't been happening quite the way we've been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.

Chai Jing
- Bird
- China
- Reform
I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?

H. G. Wells
- Men
- May
- Experience