Bird Quotes - page 4

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. (E. O. Wilson)
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures. View quote
Anthony Burgess
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us - the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star - we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child. View quote
P. L. Travers
The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. View quote
Kate Chopin
I'm going to go ahead and go boldly Cuz a little bird told me That jumping is easy That falling is fun Right up ‘til you hit the sidewalk Shivering and stunned. View quote
Ani DiFranco
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. View quote
Robert Browning
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit. View quote
Christina Rossetti
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define - what is a bird. View quote
Emma Lazarus
[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top. (Robert Burton)
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. View quote
Sara Teasdale
My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. View quote
Dr. Seuss
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" View quote
Eugene Field
These false answers - such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small - are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD. View quote
Meher Baba
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. View quote
Francis Beaumont
There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow. View quote
William Cowper
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. View quote
George Herbert
No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings. View quote
Antoine-Marin Lemierre
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride. (A. E. Housman)
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing. View quote
Omar Khayyám
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. View quote
John Muir
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. View quote
Plutarch
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. View quote
Douglas Adams