Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Votes: 4
Langston HughesI am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Votes: 4
Charlotte BronteI'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. Votes: 4
e. e. cummingsGod loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Votes: 3
Jacques DevalIt's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Votes: 3
Muhammad AliSesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high. Votes: 3
Pauly ShorePeople say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Votes: 3
Oscar RobertsonLarry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it. Votes: 3
Howie ChizekThe overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. Votes: 3
Scott TurowI think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song . Votes: 3
Charles HartshorneFall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. Votes: 3
David LettermanI've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.' Votes: 3
Caroll SpinneyThese are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. Votes: 3
Emily DickinsonI never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high. Votes: 3
Michelle ObamaI've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. Votes: 3
Dennis RodmanWhen I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. Votes: 2
Clint EastwoodA bush-warbler,Coming to the verandah-edge,Left its droppingsOn the rice-cakes. Votes: 1
Matsuo Bash?BirdsThe bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. Votes: 1
Demetri MartinIt's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. Votes: 1
Eric Jerome DickeyEveryone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view. Votes: 0
Marcus DunstanYou cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareObserve everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. Votes: 0
Thomas BeechamSaying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. Votes: 0
Idries ShahJacksonville's official bird is the butterfly. The butterfly is also Jacksonville's official flower. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzThe cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could. Votes: 0
Joseph Wood KrutchHe carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. Votes: 0
Herbert Goldthough what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? Votes: 0
Lorrie MooreUnless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth. Votes: 0
Kent Allan ReesLiving unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly. Votes: 0
William P. YoungMorning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonPerhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeThe bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. Votes: 0
William SomervileHark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! Votes: 0
John RamsayGod gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. Votes: 0
Josiah Gilbert HollandTis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. Votes: 0
Clarice LispectorQuestion: What is the white stuff in bird poop? Answer: That is bird poop, too. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutSurely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovLike a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonHold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly. Votes: 0
Langston HughesA bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune. Votes: 0
Robert FrostMy soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyIf you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathWatch the sunset without speaking, just like a bird watching the sunset in complete silence! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanEnvironmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganAnd if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheO lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThe early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm. Votes: 0
Charles M. SchulzThe sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. Votes: 0
Rachel FieldThe early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. Votes: 0
Jeremy PaxmanLike a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThey cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. Votes: 0
Malcolm XIf only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place. Votes: 0
John James AudubonMovement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. Votes: 0
William WhartonHis dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinFlutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight Votes: 0
Kathryn LaskySometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death. Votes: 0
Myron ScholesThe bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsAt heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. Votes: 0
Juliana HatfieldHer mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoTo feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird. Votes: 0
Truman CapoteWhy do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoIf I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all. Votes: 0
Rio Ferdinand... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild. Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsI prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. Votes: 0
Anais NinWhen the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears. Votes: 0
Hans Christian AndersenEvery bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciYou put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees Votes: 0
Sue Monk KiddBut now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. Votes: 0
Audrey NiffeneggerAs a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view. Votes: 0
Felix BaumgartnerThat old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinTell your little mascot to get out of here, cause I have no problem flippin' the bird. Votes: 0
EdgeThe bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Votes: 0
John MiltonWhy does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups? Votes: 0
A. A. MilneTwo birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered. Votes: 0
Santosh KalwarCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird! Votes: 0
Pliny the ElderThe Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage. Votes: 0
Will CuppyProfessor," Harry gasped. "Your bird " I couldn't do anything " he just caught fire " Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingNo bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. Votes: 0
Mark NepoJust as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn. Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorEveryone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. Votes: 0
Lois EhlertThe bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 0
Kate ChopinMagpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceDeep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. Votes: 0
Francis ThompsonThe heart is like a bird: love as its head and its two wings are hope and fear. Votes: 0
Ibn al-Qayyim al-JawzziyaThe sun is shining and the bird are singing what more could you ask for in a day! Votes: 0
Heather MillsA bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right? Votes: 0
Mary Anne RadmacherFor us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWe weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. Votes: 0
Mamoru OshiiI'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly. Votes: 0
Joy FieldingThe power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. Votes: 0
Anzia YezierskaThe gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist. Votes: 0
Hannah KentEvery nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies. Votes: 0
Suzy KassemAnd hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. Votes: 0
W. H. Davies...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. Votes: 0
Nathanael WestIts impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. Votes: 0
Eric Jerome DickeyWhen I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. Votes: 0
Czeslaw MiloszGirdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. Votes: 0
Marilyn MonroeIf he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn Votes: 0
Nicki MinajWhen the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutYou're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly. Votes: 0
Ozzy OsbourneI'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird. Votes: 0
Eva Le GallienneThis is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets. Votes: 0
Andrea CremerFaith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreI am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteI don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly. Votes: 0
David ArchuletaI caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. Votes: 0
Richard PeckThe early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer Votes: 0
Nicole RichieMake my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. Votes: 0
RumiFly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings. Votes: 0
Joni MitchellA believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollToday, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow. Votes: 0
Christie CraigIf liberty sang a song, little,as the larynx of a bird,nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall. Votes: 0
Ahmad ShamlouUnclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiUnclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiIf you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. Votes: 0
Dick ShawnThe bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe. Votes: 0
Eugene J. MartinMan is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertI never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. Votes: 0
Julian FellowesIve known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird. Votes: 0
Tiffeny MilbrettI've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird. Votes: 0
Tiffeny MilbrettFor why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird Votes: 0
Josephine HartWhen nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. Votes: 0
Phoenix DesmondLove is a speedy bird that looks like a fish. If you catch one in the sky, try not to drown. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzCats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?' Votes: 0
Prince PhilipOnly to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same. Votes: 0
Rosa LuxemburgA man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranI think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them. Votes: 0
Demetri MartinLike a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! Votes: 0
Leonard CohenI love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird! Votes: 0
Bettie PageOh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo! Votes: 0
Louis TomlinsonMan is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus. Votes: 0
Anne SextonTiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs. Votes: 3 A. O. Scott
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. Votes: 5 Mitt Romney
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Votes: 3 Spiro T. Agnew
Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry. Votes: 3 Kari Byron
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know? Votes: 1 Larry Bird
I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets. Votes: 3 Loudon Wainwright III
soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of his mouth and her lips when they first touched his were tentative. Votes: 3 Bonnie Dee
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. Votes: 3 Julia Cameron
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. Votes: 2 David Attenborough
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate. Votes: 1 Malcolm Gladwell
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. Votes: 6 Ernest Hemingway
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird! Votes: 1 Bettie Page
Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones. Votes: 3 Steven Hall
No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'. Votes: 5 Sonya Hartnett
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Votes: 4 Ambrose Bierce
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are. Votes: 3 Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. Votes: 3 John Berry
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. Votes: 1 Maeve Binchy
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.... Votes: 3 William Butler Yeats
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go. Votes: 1 Ziggy Marley
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. Votes: 2 William Shakespeare
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Votes: 1 Duane Michals
I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching. Votes: 7 Nikki Giovanni
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free. Votes: 4 Arthur Darvill
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. Votes: 1 Kris Carr
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. Votes: 3 Joan Fontaine
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings. Votes: 6 Sheri L. Dew
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten. Votes: 1 Norman Ralph Augustine
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams. Votes: 3 Paul Brown
Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam. Votes: 1 Chris DeWolfe
The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair. Votes: 3 Judd Apatow
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited. Votes: 2 Andrew Bird
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past. Votes: 3 Mehmet Murat ildan
A heart is a bird which can only hear the song of kindness and love. Votes: 4 Debasish Mridha
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. Votes: 1 Lady Bird Johnson
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. Votes: 4 James M. Barrie
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Votes: 2 Emily Dickinson
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone. Votes: 3 Malcolm Muggeridge
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart Votes: 4 Madonna Ciccone
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Votes: 1 Soren Kierkegaard