Bird Quotes - page 6

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. (Edward Abbey)
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love, You are soft as the nesting dove. Come to my heart and bring it rest As the bird flies home to its welcome nest. View quote
Paul Laurence Dunbar
You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly. View quote
Rick Riordan
My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]. View quote
Rick Riordan
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? View quote
Philip K. Dick
Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. View quote
Brian Jacques
Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . . View quote
Giorgos Seferis
What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that. View quote
David Almond
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist. View quote
David J. Anderson
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. (Dennis Rodman)
So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird. View quote
James Patterson
Disappear where?" You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself. View quote
James Patterson
I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the-never mind.) View quote
James Patterson
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive. View quote
Zack Snyder
Are you listening, little bird? View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. View quote
Annie Lennox
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. View quote
Anne Baxter
The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. (Kohta Hirano)
Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight. View quote
Kathryn Lasky
The early bird catches the worm. View quote
William Camden
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. View quote
P. C. Cast
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. View quote
Flann O'Brien