Bird Quotes

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

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

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

"I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird"

"London is a roost for every bird"

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement"

"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"

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance"

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

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

"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony"

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

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

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

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

"When I was a kid I had this funny blond hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird"

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

"I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird"

"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing"

"I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard"

"There is no bird flu in commercial stocks"

"I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart"

"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"

"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing"

"Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird"

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

"The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it"

"Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting"

"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are"

"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice"