Bird Quotes: Soaring Wisdom and Inspiration

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds"

Saadi, Poet

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Feathers predate birds"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"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"

John Coltrane, Musician

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years"

George Crook, Soldier

"The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive"

Al Purdy, Poet

"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer"

Rachel Ward, Actress

"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese"

Jeremy Paxman, Journalist

"Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds"

Jack Herer, Activist

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing"

Bret Harte, Author

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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"

Victor Hugo, Author

"London is a roost for every bird"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing"

Doug Coupland, Author

"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"A forest bird never wants a cage"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns"

George Eliot, Author

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

Coco Chanel, Designer

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings"

William Blake, Poet

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship"

William Blake, Poet

"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top"

Robert Browning, Poet

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"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"

William Golding, Novelist

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