Bird Quotes
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Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
William Morris Hunt -
Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.
William Cullen Bryant
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
William Ewart Napier -
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.
William P. Young -
A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
William Butler Yeats -
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.
William James -
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
Antoine-Marin Lemierre
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A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?
Sara Teasdale -
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
Willa Cather -
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino -
If liberty sang a song, little, as the larynx of a bird, nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.
Ahmad Shamloo -
Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
William Wharton
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Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.
Ernest Rhys -
I'm an early bird and I'm an owl. So I'm wise and I have worms.
Steve Carell -
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.
Hermann Hesse -
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Emily Dickinson -
But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.
Theodore Roethke
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I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
William Shakespeare -
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Victor Hugo -
I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.
Christopher Cokinos -
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
Jim Elliot