Bird Quotes - Page 21

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

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

The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.