Bird Quotes - Page 22

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

I can levitate birds. No one cares.

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.” And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!