Bird Quotes - Page 5

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!