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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. — William Wharton

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink. — Edgar Allan Poe

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson

The southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. "What's he doing?" "I don't know, Scout. We better go home. — Harper Lee

Birds of a feather really do flock together. — John C. Maxwell

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me. — Alan Watts

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up. — Debasish Mridha

When you smile, a bird finds her wings to fly. — Debasish Mridha

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. — Guillaume Apollinaire

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story. — Michael P. Naughton

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain

She was so goddamn beautiful, the way things that could end you were. Guns. Knives. The tawny bird of prey she resembled. — Anne Calhoun

A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart. — Debasish Mridha

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. — John Berry

I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view. — Haruki Murakami

When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody. — Robert Tannahill

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. — Ambrose Bierce

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation. — Anne Lamott

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. — Rumi

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. — Nathanael West

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears. — Hans Christian Andersen

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. — Todd Akin

Any chick who carried around a bird of prey with a little helmet was cool in my book. Oh, man, I really hoped she didn't intend to kill us all. — Kresley Cole

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. — Rae Armantrout

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. — Chogyam Trungpa

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?] — Rick Riordan

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute. — W. Somerset Maugham

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there. — Penn Jillette

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge. — John Selden

Thrown rocks can only hit a bird who is soaring lower than it is capable of. — C. Fulsty

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it. — Andre Dubus III

A bird no one wants. he's mine. my bird of pain. he doesn't sing. that bird swaying on the bough. — Charles Bukowski

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" — Eugene Field

And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door. — William Blake

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. — Henry David Thoreau

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. — Vinnie Jones

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

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ... — Sanhita Baruah

The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down. — Wallace Stevens

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you? — William Hartnell

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ... — K. Hari Kumar

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. — Jim Knight

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. — Evangeline Walton

I would not put my little bird in the jaws of a trap without being near enough to make sure it wouldn't close on her. — Lili St. Crow

There it is - a flash of relief crosses his expression. Searching for emotion in Sherlock's face is like bird watching. Ah, yes, the rare relief-bird. — Eva Morgan

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds ... — Sylvia Plath

A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
An April day in the morning! — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view. — Marcus Dunstan

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power. — Maud Lindsay

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five? — William Blake

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends. — Jason Mraz

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear ... these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry. — Kari Byron

I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made. — Jalaluddin Rumi

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery. — Hal Borland

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. — Archibald MacLeish

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds. — Ellen Glasgow

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging. — Jay McShann

You can't teach the bird to fly, you can only whisper your encouragement beneath the wings of it's knowing...
Moriarty — Dean Moriarty

Understanding the language of eyes now came as naturally to him as swimming in the ocean came to a fish and flying in the sky to a bird! — Avijeet Das

He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance. — Cormac McCarthy

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody - human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird. — Sharon Gannon

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life. — George R R Martin

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power. — Andrew Marvell

More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates. — Ashutosh Gupta

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. — Roger Tory Peterson

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds. — Valerie Bertinelli

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen. — Pablo Neruda

Do not worry Little Bird, remember we are Simulacrum, and Simulacrum are never alone, for we know the end of the story. — Julia J. Gibbs

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago. — Lois Greiman

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. — A.A. Milne

In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke

Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination. — Debasish Mridha

I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes

She - come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself - real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and - fluttery. — Susan Glaspell

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere. — Amit Ray

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper. — Barbara Kingsolver

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark. — Albert Einstein

We are each of us a bird in a body. In the space between bodies lies a solitude formed by the vibration of differing thoughts. — Meia Geddes

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. — Victor Hugo

You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet — Hal Borland

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. — Valentina Tereshkova

The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts! — Henry Van Dyke

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton

I might not get what I want out of her by asking, but I have other methods of making this little bird sing. — Georgia Cates

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice. — Mamoru Oshii

They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. — Erin Morgenstern

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant. — Adyashanti

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things. — Jeff VanderMeer

I'm a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka