Bird Quotes - Page 30

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

London is a roost for every bird.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.