Toni Morrison Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

  Toni Morrison

  Responsibility, Hands, Bird

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

• For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Rain, Flower

• More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

  Toni Morrison

  Dark, Night, Bird

  Toni Morrison (2010). “A Mercy”, p.3, Random House

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

  Toni Morrison

  Years, Bird, Would Be

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• ...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

  Toni Morrison

  Boys, Bird, Four

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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