Bird Quotes - Page 29

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

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Inspiration, Writing, Source

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• Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lilies, Kingdoms, Firsts

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• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Eagles

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

  Mark Salling

  Real, Passion, Boys

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Eels

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Worms, Spite, Ecstatic

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Wind, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.509, George Eliot

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• Hither rolls the storm of heat;
  I feel its finer billows beat
  Like a sea which me infolds;
  Heat with viewless fingers moulds,
  Swells, and mellows, and matures,
  Paints, and flavors, and allures,
  Bird and brier inly warms,
  Still enriches and transforms,
  Gives the reed and lily length,
  Adds to oak and oxen strength,
  Transforming what it doth infold,
  Life out of death, new out of old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Oxen, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Taken, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• O lovely river of Yvette!
  O darling river! like a bride,
  Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
  Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
  O lovely river Yvette!
  O darling stream! on balanced wings
  The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
  That here a wandering poet sings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Rivers, Lovely

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

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• He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.

  George Herbert

  Winter

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• The bird loves her nest.

  George Herbert

  Nests, Love Bird

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.294

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• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

  Joanna Lumley

  Flower, Animal, Tree

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• I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

  Johnny Cash

  Cabins, Ponds, Woods

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• And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.

  Red Auerbach

  Team, Blessed, Player

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• 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.

  Tippi Hedren

  Sorry, Want, Bears

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• They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

  William Gouge

  Children, Trying, Breastfeeding

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• Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.

  Ann Wroe

  Gratitude, Spring, Winter

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Men, Clothes, Style

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• Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Heart, People, Poetry

  maia wojciechowska (1968). “a single light”

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• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  Michael McMillian

  Writing, Blood, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  Maeve Binchy

  Flower, Guilt, Paradise

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