Birds In Flight Quotes

• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Envy, Bird

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  Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Healing, Fighting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House

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• The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Bird, Fruit, Flight

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Moving, Taken

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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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• 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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  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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• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Thinking, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English”, p.196, BookRix

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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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• In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Home, Loss, Bird

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• Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Home, Heart

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• The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Niece, Animal, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.20, BookBaby

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• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

  John Burroughs

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers”

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• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  Alexander McQueen

  Eagles, Engineering, Color

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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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• For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Rain, Bird

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
  Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
  A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
  Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

  Liu Zongyuan

  Lonely, Men, Fishing

  Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”

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• Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

  Rachel Carson

  Wings, Bird, Decision

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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