Bird Quotes - Page 9

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.