Bird Quotes

• I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bird

• I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Food

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  

  James Allen
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Dream

• A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

  

  James Stephens
  • Gold
  • Bird
  • Rose

• Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Practice

• We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Hope
  • Words
  • Eyes

• When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Up
  • Why
  • Happy

• I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Work
  • Music
  • Bird

• How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

  

  Boyle Roche
  • Bird

• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  

  Jose Marti
  • Life
  • Done
  • Air

• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Today
  • Magic
  • Jump

• It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Bird

• In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • People
  • Women
  • Tree

• I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Time
  • History
  • Science

• No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Bird
  • Flying
  • Critics

• I'm an early bird and I'm an owl. So I'm wise and I have worms.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Wise
  • Bird
  • Worms

• It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • Flying

• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  

  David Mixner
  • Country
  • America
  • Beautiful

• A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Water
  • Air
  • Bird

• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Die
  • Broken

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Purple

• A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Live
  • May
  • Bird

• Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Bird

• The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Moving

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