Birds Quotes

• The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Fashion
  • Voices
  • Breasts

• Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Habit
  • Strange
  • Birds

• We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Walk

• Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Volcano

• We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

  

  Eli Attie
  • My Life
  • Wings
  • Aspire

• Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Birds

• Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sky
  • Teach
  • Birds

• I find a great deal of contentment in simply sitting in my garden and watching the birds that come to visit. I am a passionate birdwatcher and as we live near some woodland, we are spoilt with the variety of species that pass through.

  

  Naomi Wilkinson
  • Garden
  • Watching
  • Birds

• The birds sing their heads off first thing in the morning and last thing at night but they don’t understand what God is, do they?

  

  Michael Eavis
  • Understand
  • Sing
  • Birds

• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Miracle
  • Animals
  • Birds

• Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Creatures
  • Flowers
  • Birds

• A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Silence
  • Melancholy
  • Shadows

• Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

  

  Siegfried Woldhek
  • Faces
  • Surprise
  • Birds

• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Truth
  • Murder
  • Birds

• As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft musical voice. Tru-al-ly, tru-al-ly, they sweetly assert when we can scarcely believe that spring is here; tru-wee, tur-wee they softly call in autumn when they go roaming through the countryside in flocks of azure.

  

  Neltje Blanchan
  • Birds
  • Gentleness
  • Flocks

• Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Birds
  • Laughed
  • French government

• I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Birds
  • Caged

• Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

  

  Rumi
  • Freedom
  • Wings
  • Birds

• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Build
  • Landscape
  • Birds

• Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Voice

• In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Silence
  • Birds

• He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Food
  • Release
  • Birds

• You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Sky
  • Birds
  • Cloud

• The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

  

  Kay Johnson
  • Place
  • Forest
  • Birds

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