Quotes about Birds

Birds never sing in caves. Votes: 3

Birds are an ecological litmus paper. Votes: 3

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod. Votes: 3

Birds are the first and the greatest performers. Votes: 3

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together. Votes: 3

Birds of a feather really do flock together. Votes: 3

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy Votes: 3

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? Votes: 3

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages. Votes: 3

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this. Votes: 3

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you. Votes: 3

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. Votes: 3

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while. Votes: 3

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. Votes: 3

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. Votes: 3

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? Votes: 3

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? Votes: 3

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young. Votes: 3

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter. Votes: 3

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. Votes: 3

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone. Votes: 3

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. Votes: 3

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. Votes: 3

Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell. Votes: 3

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... and humans will see... Votes: 3

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. Votes: 3

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see... Votes: 3

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. Votes: 3

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff. Votes: 3

A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,Birds without trees can never feel free. Votes: 3

Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high. Votes: 3

Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere! Votes: 3

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. Votes: 3

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name. Votes: 3

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love. Votes: 3

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass. Votes: 3

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. Votes: 3

Feeding birds means feeding yourself! Birds are part of nature and feeding nature is nothing but feeding yourself! Votes: 3

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. Votes: 3

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Votes: 3

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground! Votes: 3

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings. Votes: 3

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? Votes: 3

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring— Votes: 3

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds. Votes: 3

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. Votes: 3

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds]. Votes: 3

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive! Votes: 3

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing. Votes: 3

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Votes: 3

Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example. Votes: 3

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life. Votes: 3

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. Votes: 3

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. Votes: 3

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds. Votes: 3

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me. Votes: 3

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Votes: 3

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. Votes: 3

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather. Votes: 3

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. Votes: 3

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so. Votes: 3

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do? Votes: 3

Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can't I. Votes: 3

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Votes: 2

This Byrd wants a Wren. Votes: 1

Spread your wings and fly Votes: 1

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden. Votes: 1

Black hawk down.Black eagle up. Votes: 1

Wherever there are birds, there is hope. Votes: 1

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. Votes: 1

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset. Votes: 1

Summer is the season of wild birds. Votes: 1

We were suppose to be like the birds. Votes: 1

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind Votes: 1

Happier than a bird with a french fry. Votes: 1

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. Votes: 1

...a murder of crows gormandized until they were satiated. Votes: 1

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too! Votes: 1

A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place. Votes: 1

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Votes: 1

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. Votes: 1

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows. Votes: 1

Love splattered on my life like bird shit on a windshield. Votes: 1

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you. Votes: 1

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say. Votes: 1

A bush-warbler,Coming to the verandah-edge,Left its droppingsOn the rice-cakes. Votes: 1

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. Votes: 1

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. Votes: 1

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. Votes: 1

Jacksonville's official bird is the butterfly. The butterfly is also Jacksonville's official flower. Votes: 1

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Votes: 1

Some friends are like birds, who never leave you when you are alone. Votes: 1

The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty. Votes: 1

Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise. Votes: 1

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ... Votes: 1

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help. Votes: 1

though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? Votes: 1

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Votes: 1

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere. Votes: 1

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. Votes: 1

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best. Votes: 1

Maybe one day I could fly all over the world and meet other interesting birds. Votes: 1

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Votes: 1

Be the Chocolate What if I want to be the bird who eats the Chocolate? Votes: 1

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. Votes: 1

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Votes: 1

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds! Votes: 1

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever. Votes: 1

Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn. Votes: 1

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. Votes: 1

She was suppose to be mine. I hers. We were suppose to be like the birds. Votes: 1

Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein Votes: 1

Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair. Votes: 1

From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence. Votes: 1

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn. Votes: 1

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... Votes: 1

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. Votes: 1

Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina. Votes: 1

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average. Votes: 1

Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude! Votes: 1

I don't feed the birds because they need me; I feed the birds because I need them. Votes: 1

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. Votes: 1

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! Votes: 1

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. Votes: 1

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. Votes: 1

She wanted to know if I loved her, so I texted her a picture of a dead bird. Votes: 1

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. Votes: 1

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die Votes: 1

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds Votes: 1

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. Votes: 1

Whenever people see birds flying through the sky, it's said that they get the urge to go on a journey. Votes: 1

Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage. Votes: 1

Live like the season is ending and the birds are leaving, fight against the winds of the fall like the last leave. Votes: 1

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. Votes: 1

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. Votes: 1

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in. Votes: 1

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. Votes: 1

I saw two lizards kissing yesterday, but I scared them off. Maybe I should have taken off my bird costume before peeping on them. Votes: 1

I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds. Votes: 1

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell Votes: 1

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. Votes: 1

Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics. Votes: 1

In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water! Votes: 1

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. Votes: 1

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp. Votes: 1

Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker."That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly. Votes: 1

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets. Votes: 1

Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs. Votes: 1

Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven. Votes: 1

Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts! Votes: 1

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Votes: 1

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem. Votes: 1

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Votes: 1

I have the ostrich of an asshole. I also have the asshole of an ostrich. With these two things, I have everything I need. Well, aside from love. Votes: 1

The clouds are like marble in the sky, and I just want to make a kitchen counter out of the atmosphere. I can cook like a flock of birds. Votes: 1

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work. Votes: 1

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don't leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best; you were created to use every gift in you! Votes: 1

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. Votes: 1

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth. Votes: 1

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking. Votes: 1

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. Votes: 1

The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions. Votes: 1

My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear. Votes: 1

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Votes: 1

Birds have done great jobs for the progression of humanity: They kept alive our love for freedom and they insistently motivated us to reach the skies, to reach the stars! Votes: 1

Newborn babies can't do much on their own-They can't eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation. Votes: 1

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind. Votes: 1

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. Votes: 1

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." - Chinese Proverb Votes: 1

The birds bark my name, and I meow theirs in return. I may be a bit mixed up about life, but not about love. Or maybe I mixed that up. Votes: 1

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work."Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know? Votes: 1

You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams. Votes: 1

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. Votes: 1

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship. Votes: 1

Leaving your dreams and living someone's dreams is like dipping a pole into a pool to catch a weaver bird alive! It doesn't work that way... Pursue what God sent you for! Votes: 1

And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings ... even the birds stop to listen. Votes: 1

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. Votes: 1

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them? Votes: 1

I live there...where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit's a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere everyone accepts me,Without any pretenseIt's a place your mind can picturebut never really comprehend. Votes: 1

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call! Votes: 1

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly. Votes: 1

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. Votes: 1

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament. Votes: 1

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings! Votes: 1

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say. Votes: 1

Don't you think it's a small mystery that birds can twitter so loudly that they can hear each other's song from several miles away? Those tiny bundles are like living flutes, playing non-stop on themselves. Votes: 1

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Votes: 1

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind. Votes: 1

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels. Votes: 1

A flash of harmless lightning,A mist of rainbow dyes.The burnished sunbeams brighteningFrom flower to flower he flies;While wakes the nodding blossomBut just too late to seeWhat lip hath touched her bosomAnd drained her rosary. Votes: 1

Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there's no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do break out. Votes: 1

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Votes: 1

Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic,dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere fast. Votes: 1

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

I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds. Votes: 1

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. Votes: 1

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them. Votes: 1

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: 1

Consider my Lover; the yellow churchof his skin, the clean wells of his ears;How the notes of a song come to himlike birds descending on a power line;How in his absence I am of twothroats--each of them cramped. Votes: 1

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. Votes: 1

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time. Votes: 1

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous. Votes: 1

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven. Votes: 1

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that. Votes: 1

Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach. Votes: 1

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. Votes: 1

what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it? Votes: 1

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off. Votes: 1

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it. Votes: 1

She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes. Votes: 1

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Votes: 1

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. Votes: 1

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events -- the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33 Votes: 1

Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If writing a beautiful line of poetry fills a poet's heart with joy, imagine how that same poet's soul must take flight at the sight of swallows soaring through the evening sky! Votes: 1

Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus. Votes: 1

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. Votes: 1

Mercury starts barkingat a bunch of colourful parrots sitting in the bending fennel. I let him off the leash, and they twitter and fly away, points in a moving constellation.Dad used to say Aussie birds reminded himof fish in the reef near his village, Free, multicoloured, dreamlike. Votes: 1

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. Votes: 1

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much. Votes: 1

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble. Votes: 1

When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Votes: 1

A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.This magpie was like that. Votes: 1

Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment. Votes: 1

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. Votes: 1

When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But when a human being begins to fly, you begin to hear talks in the town such as "abomination!... where did he get the wings from?". Never mind! Your dreams are your wings, so decide to fly! Votes: 1

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it. Votes: 1

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. Votes: 1

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. Votes: 1

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Votes: 1

Feathers predate birds. Votes: 0

Fantastic shadows of birds Votes: 0

Like the birds I will fly. Votes: 0

Forbeare not sowing because of birds. Votes: 0

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. Votes: 0

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes. Votes: 0

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds. Votes: 0

Just like birds, hunters know no borders. Votes: 0

Spring: trees flying up to their birds Votes: 0

Earth has few secrets from the birds. Votes: 0

Poets are far rarer birds than kings. Votes: 0

I can levitate birds. No one cares. Votes: 0

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked Votes: 0

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Votes: 0

The little birds have God for their caterer. Votes: 0

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em. Votes: 0

The black crow thinketh her own birds white. Votes: 0

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds. Votes: 0

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly. Votes: 0

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. Votes: 0

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly. Votes: 0

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. Votes: 0

I love Cadillacs and name them after birds. Votes: 0

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. Votes: 0

The birds can fly, An' why can't I? Votes: 0

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds. Votes: 0

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired. Votes: 0

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds. Votes: 0

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. Votes: 0

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life. Votes: 0

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. Votes: 0

We found the future, like birds fly into windows. Votes: 0

Without love we all like birds with broken wings. Votes: 0

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds. Votes: 0

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar. Votes: 0

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. Votes: 0

One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. Votes: 0

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds Votes: 0

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. Votes: 0

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Votes: 0

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing. Votes: 0

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats. Votes: 0

I wish we had all been born birds instead. Votes: 0

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer. Votes: 0

Animals, birds, and fish confirm Your power and Your existence. Votes: 0

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds. Votes: 0

Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction! Votes: 0

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. Votes: 0

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing. Votes: 0

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen. Votes: 0

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation. Votes: 0

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place... Votes: 0

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind. Votes: 0

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. Votes: 0

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds. Votes: 0

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. Votes: 0

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. Votes: 0

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. Votes: 0

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. Votes: 0

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night. Votes: 0

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE. Votes: 0

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords. Votes: 0

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days. Votes: 0

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. Votes: 0

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed. Votes: 0

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers. Votes: 0

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. Votes: 0

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds. Votes: 0

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent. Votes: 0

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly Votes: 0

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. Votes: 0

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned. Votes: 0

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Votes: 0

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. Votes: 0

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. Votes: 0

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. Votes: 0

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from. Votes: 0

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter. Votes: 0

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. Votes: 0

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together. Votes: 0

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. Votes: 0

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. Votes: 0

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. Votes: 0

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing. Votes: 0

Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. Votes: 0

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes Votes: 0

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry. Votes: 0

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Votes: 0

If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart. Votes: 0

Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now. Votes: 0

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason. Votes: 0

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. Votes: 0

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. Votes: 0

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender. Votes: 0

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. Votes: 0

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Votes: 0

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. Votes: 0

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. Votes: 0

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds~? Votes: 0

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don't answer that right away. Votes: 0

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds? Votes: 0

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. Votes: 0

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. Votes: 0

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages. Votes: 0

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. Votes: 0

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. Votes: 0

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds. Votes: 0

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees. Votes: 0

She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds. Votes: 0

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding. Votes: 0

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. Votes: 0

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. Votes: 0

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. Votes: 0

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Votes: 0

Scotland is a soggy sort it place, where birds and animals walk around uncooked Votes: 0

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car. Votes: 0

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. Votes: 0

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street Votes: 0

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. Votes: 0

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. Votes: 0

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Votes: 0

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that. Votes: 0

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed. Votes: 0

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Votes: 0

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down? Votes: 0

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend. Votes: 0

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say Votes: 0

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all. Votes: 0

Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. Votes: 0

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. Votes: 0

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. Votes: 0

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. Votes: 0

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone. Votes: 0

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. Votes: 0

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. Votes: 0

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. Votes: 0

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony. Votes: 0

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. Votes: 0

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. Votes: 0

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 Votes: 0

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. Votes: 0

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings. Votes: 0

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. Votes: 0

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. Votes: 0

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? Votes: 0

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me. Votes: 0

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach." Votes: 0

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point. Votes: 0

Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch. Votes: 0

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. Votes: 0

The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell. Votes: 0

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. Votes: 0

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living Votes: 0

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone. Votes: 0

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. Votes: 0

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds. Votes: 0

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. Votes: 0

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. Votes: 0

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. Votes: 0

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash. Votes: 0

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. Votes: 0

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle. Votes: 0

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together. Votes: 0

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. Votes: 0

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. Votes: 0

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. Votes: 0

Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair." Votes: 0

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds. Votes: 0

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes Votes: 0

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Votes: 0

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude Votes: 0

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too Votes: 0

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. Votes: 0

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. Votes: 0

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. Votes: 0

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown Votes: 0

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky. Votes: 0

I call wild niggas together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus. Votes: 0

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? Votes: 0

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration. Votes: 0

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!' Votes: 0

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds. Votes: 0

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. Votes: 0

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. Votes: 0

Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! Votes: 0

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. Votes: 0

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet? Votes: 0

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns. Votes: 0

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. Votes: 0

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Votes: 0

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? Votes: 0

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered. Votes: 0

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Votes: 0

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. Votes: 0

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. Votes: 0

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds. Votes: 0

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God. Votes: 0

The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song. Votes: 0

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks. Votes: 0

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. Votes: 0

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. Votes: 0

Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class? Votes: 0

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. Votes: 0

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons. Votes: 0

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. Votes: 0

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you. Votes: 0

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. Votes: 0

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African. Votes: 0

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything. Votes: 0

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! Votes: 0

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. Votes: 0

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. Votes: 0

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. Votes: 0

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. Votes: 0

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky. Votes: 0

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. Votes: 0

...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. Votes: 0

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom! Votes: 0

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that. Votes: 0

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off. Votes: 0

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it. Votes: 0

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. Votes: 0

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love. Votes: 0

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. Votes: 0

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go. Votes: 0

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. Votes: 0

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. Votes: 0

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. Votes: 0

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs. Votes: 0

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. Votes: 0

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. Votes: 0

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly. Votes: 0

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest. Votes: 0

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there. Votes: 0

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. Votes: 0

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? Votes: 0

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn. Votes: 0

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds. Votes: 0

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring. Votes: 0

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. Votes: 0

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. Votes: 0

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. Votes: 0

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly Votes: 0

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine. Votes: 0

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. Votes: 0

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money. Votes: 0

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems. Votes: 0

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi. Votes: 0

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that? Votes: 0

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that? Votes: 0

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Votes: 0

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Votes: 0

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend! Votes: 0

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds "” with God's help I catch some. Votes: 0

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. Votes: 0

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds. Votes: 0

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly. Votes: 0

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?' Votes: 0

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love"•just enough to feed the birds. Votes: 0

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves! Votes: 0

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly. Votes: 0

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds Votes: 0

What kind of woman was she anyway to give herself to a man just because of some mangroves and a few birds? Votes: 0

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds. Votes: 0

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. Votes: 0

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine. Votes: 0

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Votes: 0

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Votes: 0

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all. Votes: 0