Bird Quotes - Page 7

• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Horse, Hard Times

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• Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

  Mitch Albom

  Wings, Broken, Without Love

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• Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Birds Wings, People

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• We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Learning, Destiny, Fire

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

  Alma Gluck

  Butterfly, Artist, Natural

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• I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Animal, Garden

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Listening, Peculiar

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• Earth has few secrets from the birds.

  William Beebe

  Science, Secret, Earth

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• It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

  James Joyce

  Long, Orbs, Flight

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.474, e-artnow

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• In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Anxiety, Everyday, Earth

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• The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

  Arthur Miller

  Home, Writing, Editing

  Harper's, Aug. 1958

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• Old age is
  a flight of small
  cheeping birds
  skimming
  bare trees
  above a snow glaze.

  William Carlos Williams

  Snow, Tree, Age

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

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• The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Aviation, Bluebird

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1869). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.115

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• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Boys, Equality

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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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, Littles, Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

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

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• I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bridges, Environmental, Stuff

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• Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

  Winston Groom

  Jenny, Dear God, Far Away

  "Fictional Character: Jenny". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  Richard Cushing

  Nature, Ducks, Swim

  "Quotation Finder". Book by Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, p. 55, 1971.

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• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

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• The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

  Andy Warhol

  Humorous, Mosquitoes, Jersey

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• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  Quentin Blake

  Thinking, Two, Giving

  "Dances with frogs", www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2003.

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• Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

  Amit Ray

  Intuition, Maps, Reason

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• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

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