Bird Quotes - Page 14

• Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

  Janice Dickinson

  Book, Self, Groups

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• Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

  Louise Erdrich

  Light, Ravens, Missing

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

  John Green

  Giving Up, Fun, Hate

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• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Joy, Cages, Born

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

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• He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

  John of the Cross

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

  Dick Armey

  Mistake, Party, Player

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• There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

  Michael E. Mann

  Flu, Bird Flu

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• Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Sea, Land, Voice

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• Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  Doris Lessing

  Bible, Kings, Air

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Team, Different, Young

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• Ah! the year is slowly dying,
  And the wind in tree-top sighing,
  Chant his requiem.
  Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
  High in air wild birds are calling,
  Nature's solemn hymn.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Fall, Air, Years

  Mary Weston Fordham, “Passing Of The Old Year”

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• I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

  Henry Miller

  Thinking, Wings, Used

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Sorrow, Fields

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

  Marston Bates

  Photography, Nature, Science

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Ddt, Apples

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Crow, Trying

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1661, Delphi Classics

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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  Vikas Swarup

  Angry Birds, Angry

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• Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Singing, Believer

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

  John Henry Newman

  Resources, Instruments, Pastime

  John Henry Newman (2010). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.231, Cambridge University Press

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• Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
  To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
  He prayeth well, who loveth well
  Both man and bird and beast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Farewell, Men

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 613 (1798)

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• The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Alarms, Coal

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• I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Stronger, World, Want

  Tahereh Mafi (2011). “Shatter Me”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Like the birds I will fly.

  Victoria Forester

  Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.171, Macmillan

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• Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Environment, Natural Environment

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