Hummingbird Quotes

He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird. (Karen Chance)
Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight.
Kathryn Lasky
Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, "Why don't you admit that the hummingbird, the butterfly, and the Bird-of-Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?" And I always say, "Well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a riverbank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, that's in its eye and boring through its eyeballs and is slowly turning it blind. The creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm."
David Attenborough
Its heart that in flight contracted a thousand times a minute, slows until its beat is virtually undetectable. Its body temperature falls dramatically, and its breathing seems to cease altogether. [...] It's hibernating; but for a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.
David Attenborough
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
Henry Miller
[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
Will Cuppy
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
Mary Oliver
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
Charles Bukowski
He has the attention span of a hummingbird.
Christopher Moore (author)
In the armoury of man, charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing - like a sense of humour, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't. (Laurie Lee)
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.
Francesca Lia Block
I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
Shailene Woodley
I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.
Ilona Andrews
I'm more of a culture hummingbird.
Jai Rodriguez
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'
Lesley Nicol
For a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.
David Attenborough
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
Anne Lamott