Bird Quotes

"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds"

"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place"

"Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock"

"He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast"

"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 you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it"

"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment"

"In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you"

"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees"

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before"

"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing"

"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft"

"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall"

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body"

"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"

"It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall"

"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children"

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly"

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up"

"Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels"

"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned"

"Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes"

"The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple"

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes"

"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes"