Bluebird Quotes

• Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

  Cole Porter

  Passion, Blue, Singing

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

  Lin Yutang

  Moments

  Yutang Lin (1950). “On the Wisdom of America”

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• Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Blue, Sky

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• Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

  Paul McCartney

  Night, Love Is, Doors

  Song: Bluebird

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• There's a bluebird in my heart that
  wants to get out
  but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
  cigarette smoke
  and the whores and the bartenders
  and the grocery clerks
  never know that
  he's
  in there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Cigarette Smoke, Clerks

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

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• There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Want, Chaos

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

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• A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Men, Half, Half Life

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• O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

  John Burroughs

  Hue, Coats, Azure

  John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

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• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Ducks, Optimism, Quacks

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Summer, Spring, Sound

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• Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hard Work, Hey, Wells

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• Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Song, Spring, Home

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• How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

  John Burroughs

  Retreat, Neighbor, Offers

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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• Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2189, Delphi Classics

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• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  Gary Larson

  Depression, Long, Chickens

  Gary Larson (1988). “The far side gallery 3”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Hands, Color

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Sunset, Sublime

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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, Bird, Littles

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

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• There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Want, Tough

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Eye, Blue, Names

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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