Bird Flying Quotes

• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hunting, Bird, Flying

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Gun, Bird

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• Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

  P. L. Travers

  Bird, Flying, Gone

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• Birds flying high you know how I feel
  Sun in the sky you know how I feel
  Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
  And this old world is a new world
  And a bold world
  For me
  And I'm feeling good
  I'm feeling good

  Nina Simone

  Inspirational, Flying High, Sky

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Judy Garland

  Psychics, Rainbow, Bird

  Song: Over the Rainbow {from The Wizard of Oz}, Album: Spotlight on Judy Garland (Great Ladies Of Song)

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Morning, Life Changing

  "The Path of Individual Liberation (volume 1): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One".

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• 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?

  L. Frank Baum

  Rainbow, Bird, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dorothy". "The Wizard of Oz", www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Rainbow, Flying, Littles

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, People, Bird

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• You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

  George A. Romero

  Fall, People, Bird

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• There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Mean, Night

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Eggs, Ordinary

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a town in north Ontario,
  With dream comfort memory to spare,
  And in my mind
  I still need a place to go,
  All my changes were there.
  
  Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
  Yellow moon on the rise,
  Big birds flying across the sky,
  Throwing shadows on our eyes.

  Neil Young

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.23, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Bird, Flying, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Mar 27, 2014

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

  Jenny Downham

  Blessed, Fall, Kissing

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• Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Bird, Flying, Firsts

  "Now that I've finally been admitted to Britain it seems that everyone else suddenly wants to leave" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2008.

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