Quotes about Birds

"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"
-William Blake

""If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can't I ?'"
-Orville Wright

"We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
-Aesop

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
-Chinese Proverb

"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
-Charles Lindbergh

"Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings."
-Mitchell Burgess

"How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!"
-Belva Plain

"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!"
-John Burroughs

"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

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

"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot."
-Mitchell Burgess

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
-Joseph Addison

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."
-Saskya Pandita

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"
-Rose F. Kennedy

"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."
-Robert Lynd

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

"You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."
-William Henry Hudson

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
-Izaak Walton

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
-Bob Dylan

"You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly."
-Lewis Carroll

"My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow."
-Don Williams, Jr.

"God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests."
-Danish Proverb

"There's always oddities that you find. Birds can fly anywhere they want to."
-Brian Shema

"This is most certainly not the bird flu. This is a common illness in birds."
-Jennifer Pflugfelder

"Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can't I."
-Lyman Frank Baum

"Pardon the pun, but you really do get a bird's eye view from up there."
-Judy Walker

"They're both like birds halfway out of the nest."
-Qin Ma