Bird Quotes

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"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"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"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

"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 never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats"

Rebecca West, Author

"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

"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

"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

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

James M. Barrie, Playwright

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

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"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"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits"

Chanakya, Politician

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities"

James Allen, Author

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

Lou Holtz, Coach

"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children"

John Adams, President

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

e. e. cummings, Poet

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

e. e. cummings, Poet

"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

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

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

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

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

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

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

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