220 Birds Quotes to Help You Appreciate Nature's Melodies

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Famous Birds Quotes

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked — Oscar Wilde

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird? — David Attenborough

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon

God feeds the birds that use their wings. — Danish Proverbs

A good bird begins chirping while in the egg — Greek Proverbs

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. — Anne Stevenson

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. - Charles Lindbergh

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. — Charles Lindbergh

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. — E. B. White

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing. — Kay Johnson

We hear the cuckoo’s voice; Then sweet songs of the turtle dove and finch are heard. Soft breezes stir the air. — Antonio Vivaldi

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them. — Henry David Thoreau

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. - Tennessee Williams

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. — Roger Tory Peterson

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore

Short Birds Quotes

  • Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. — Chinese Proverbs
  • As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. — John Muir
  • The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. — Willie Nelson
  • The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
  • It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop
  • Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso
  • I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka
  • Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami
  • One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now. — Bob Ross

Birds Image Quotes

Birds quote Like a bird singing in the rain, the grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
Like a bird singing in the rain, the grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake quote

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. — William Blake

Birds quote God gives every bird a worm, but does not throw it into the nest.
God gives every bird a worm, but does not throw it into the nest.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. - J. G. Holland quote

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. — J. G. Holland

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds. - E. E. cummings quote

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds. — E. E. cummings

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. - Brian Lamb quote

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. — Brian Lamb

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. - Chogyam Trungpa quote

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. — Chogyam Trungpa

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. - Joni Mitchell quote

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. — Joni Mitchell

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. - Saadi Shirazi quote

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. — Saadi Shirazi

Birds quote A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. - William Blake quote

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. — William Blake

Birds quote Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.

Love Birds Quotes

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.' — Hafez

The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am. — Isadora Duncan

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. - Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. - Jacques Deval

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval

I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction. — Emmet Fox

A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. — African Proverbs

Birds quote Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang be
Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang best.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it. — Mitt Romney

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! — Yehudi Menuhin

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings. — Caitlin Moran

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter

Beautiful Birds Quotes

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. — Zaha Hadid

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. — Alexander McQueen

In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Birds quote I would like to paint the way a bird signs.
I would like to paint the way a bird signs.

...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance. — Margaret Mead

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make? — Little Richard

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds. — Carl Linnaeus

Birds quote A child without education, is like a bird without wings.
A child without education, is like a bird without wings.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri

In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody. — Diane Dreher

As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work. — Yves Klein

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. — Jacques Pepin

Early Birds Quotes

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? — Charles Spurgeon

The early bird catches the worm. - William Camden

The early bird catches the worm. — William Camden

Birds quote I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks — William Camden

The early bird gets the worm. — Proverbs

The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Birds quote Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. — Mark Twain

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms. — Steve Carell

Feeding Birds Quotes

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

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. — Charles Stanley

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. — David Attenborough

Birds quote Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more. — Czeslaw Milosz

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them. — Maggie Elizabeth Jones

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea. — Katherine Dunn

Birds quote The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.
The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it. — Steven Wright

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house. — Mike Farrell

Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks. — Randolph Sinks Foster

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! — Francis Quarles

Save Birds Quotes

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

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven. — Emily Dickinson

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals. — James F. Cooper

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. — Will Cuppy

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. "Even the handsome ones." "One will do," said Magnus, and, as Will was no longer within his sight, he let the front door fall shut. — Cassandra Clare

We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird — Julia Stiles

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them. — Henry David Thoreau

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. — Anthony Burgess

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?' — Prince Philip

Flying Birds Quotes

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! — Abdul Kalam

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good — Nina Simone

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

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. — Chinese Proverbs

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. — Muhammad Ali

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas

Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon. — Benny Hinn

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? - Judy Garland

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? — Judy Garland

Morning Birds Quotes

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr

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

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand. — William of Ockham

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? — James Joyce

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. — John Burroughs

Have you heard about the morning after pill, or what I like to call breakfast in bed. Well have you heard about how some of the girls who have taken have died a few days later? Talk about two birds, looks like I will be going to the game this weekend boys. — Daniel Tosh

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. — Eleanor Farjeon

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. — John Milton

Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance. — Aya Kito

Singing Birds Quotes

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. — Victor Hugo

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. — Terry Tempest Williams

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. — Eric Berne

Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. — Rick Riordan

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? — Rose Kennedy

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you - Ieyasu Tokugawa

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you — Ieyasu Tokugawa

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. — Johannes Kepler

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom. — Maya Angelou

Birds Wings Quotes

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — C. Archie Danielson

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake

Kites are just birds without wings. — Theo Von

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. — William Carlos Williams

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. — Ambrose Bierce

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. — Will Carleton

A bird never flew on one wing. — Danish Proverbs

Caged Birds Quotes

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. — Sakya Pandita

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. — Saskya Pandita

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. - Spiro T. Agnew

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. — Spiro T. Agnew

The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back. — Vietnamese Proverbs

A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. — Maya Angelou

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I know what the caged bird feels, alas! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. — Stephen King

I know why the caged bird sings. — Maya Angelou

Sea Birds Quotes

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. — Empedocles

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos. — Bill Mollison

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? — Countee Cullen

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees. — John Muir

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet. — Lewis Thomas

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings. — Joni Mitchell

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive. — Hilda Doolittle

Birds In Flight Quotes

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? — Yip Harburg

A bird in the hand is worth more than one hundred in flight. — Mexican Proverbs

There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. — Shel Silverstein

When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line. — Violeta Parra

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

Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings. — Victor Hugo

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — James M. Barrie

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight. — Chinese Proverbs

I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life. — Annette Messager

Wild Birds Quotes

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world. — Jerzy Kosinski

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. — Joseph Conrad

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. — Anton Chekhov

You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. — Uncle Kracker

The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods are gone. With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow While small birds nestle in the edge below. — John Clare

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. — Sun Tzu

I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it. — Hilda Lewis

I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself;A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having felt sorry for itself. — D. H. Lawrence

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. — Carl Sandburg

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two Birds Quotes

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Frederick Buechner

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. — Frederick Buechner

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. — English Proverbs

You should not call in a cat to settle the argument of two birds. — Indian Proverbs

A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush — Spanish Proverbs

One stone, two birds. — Japanese Proverbs

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone. — Vladimir Nabokov

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. — Oscar Robertson

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone. — Henry George

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi

Bird Quotes

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. — Anthony Jeselnik

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink. — Edgar Allan Poe

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. — John Ruskin

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related. — Thomas Berry

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! — Leonard Cohen

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

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves. — Gretel Ehrlich

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican. — Dixon Lanier Merritt

People Writing About Birds

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
quotes on love, love and marriage and life

1908 25561
Read quotes by David Attenborough

David Attenborough
quotes on climate change, conservation and life

160 3237
Read quotes by John Lennon

John Lennon
quotes on life, love and death

617 9452
Read quotes by Danish Proverbs

Danish Proverbs
quotes on life, friendship and wisdom

69 1
Read quotes by Greek Proverbs

Greek Proverbs
quotes on ancient, wisdom and culture

176 1
Read quotes by Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson
quotes on education, leadership and life

32 201

More Birds Quotes

Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed In that magical wood in the land of sleep. — Sarojini Naidu

The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child. — Claude Debussy

The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

In Conclusion

Reading bird quotes isn't just about admiring words; it's about internalizing the messages they carry. Think about it - wouldn't you feel a surge of strength when you read a quote comparing you to an angry bird, reminding you that even the smallest creatures can be fierce and determined? Or wouldn't you feel a sense of tranquility when you read a quote about morning birds, reminding you to embrace the peace and quiet of the early hours? And most importantly, bird quotes can remind us of our responsibility to save birds, to protect these wonderful creatures that bring so much beauty and inspiration into our lives. So, let's embrace bird quotes - for motivation, for peace, and for love.

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