Bird Quotes - Page 3

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

The early bird catches the worm.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

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.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.