Bird Quotes: Soaring Wisdom and Inspiration

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

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

"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

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"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

"Feathers predate birds"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"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

"London is a roost for every bird"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"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

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

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

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

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet"

Hal Borland, Author

"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

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

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

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

Saadi, Poet

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Anais Nin, Author

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

Coco Chanel, Designer

"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

"My heart is like a singing bird"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness"

George Martin, Producer

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here"

Morris West, Writer

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

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