Bird Quotes

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. (Paul Valéry)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. View quote
William Blake
A man without ambition is like a bird without wings. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. View quote
Langston Hughes
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
A forest bird never wants a cage. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. View quote
William Blake
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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)
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. View quote
Germaine Greer
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
James Allen
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. View quote
Saadi
The shell must break before the bird can fly. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. View quote
Marvin Minsky
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. View quote
E. E. Cummings
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. View quote
Douglas Adams
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. (Victor Hugo)
It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise. View quote
Mark Twain
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. View quote
Truman Capote
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
Robert Frost