Bird Quotes - Page 6

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

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Compassion, Environmental, Trouble

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• 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.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Using Your Talents, Giving, Joy

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Poetry, New Frontiers, Poetry Is

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• I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

  Little Richard

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

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• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Hippie, I Hate You

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• Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

  Eduardo Galeano

  Atoms, Stories, Littles

  "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s 'Open Veins,' on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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

  Alexander Pope

  Blooming, Joyous, Spray

  Alexander Pope, “Spring - The First Pastoral ; Or Damon”

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• I soared above the song birds
  And never heard them sing
  I lived my life in winter
  And then you brought the spring

  Randall Wallace

  Song, Spring, Winter

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• 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.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Life, Dog, Men

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• My heart is like a singing bird.

  Christina Rossetti

  Memorable, Heart, Singing

  "A Birthday" l. 1 (1862)

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• A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

  Bret Harte

  Inspirational, Hands, May

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• The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Law, Honor

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• Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Morning, Rising

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

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• The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

  William Blake

  Animal, White, Black

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

  John Burroughs

  Blue, Color, Sky

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Voice, Singing, Throat

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• The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Tree, Way

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Flower, Air, Gentle

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “First Thought Best Thought”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Animal, Garden

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

  e. e. cummings

  Songbirds, Forests

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• A forest bird never wants a cage.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Want, Forests

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Feathers

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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