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The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky. — William C. Bryant

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. — Yuja Wang

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals. — David Suzuki

Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress. — Josh Malerman

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. — Jonathan Lethem

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords. — Curtis Jackson

Feeding birds means feeding yourself! Birds are part of nature and feeding nature is nothing but feeding yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Birds are born to have wings; wings are symbols of freedom. — Nancy Yi Fan

We found the future, like birds fly into windows. — Austin Kleon

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek. — Daniel Arsand

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter. — George W. Bush

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. — Matthew McConaughey

Birds exist to teach us things about the sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

Earth has few secrets from the birds. — William Beebe

We were suppose to be like the birds. — Erin Bowman

She had her nose so high in the air she could smell the birds farting. — Ayana Mathis

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

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. — Gustave Flaubert

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life. — Helena Bonham Carter

Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She — Sarah J. Maas

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone. — Lydia M. Child

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight. — Wislawa Szymborska

Just like birds, hunters know no borders. — Wole Soyinka

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing. — Donald Worster

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides — Frank Herbert

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. — Winston Churchill

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street. — Ralph Hodgson

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever. — Alok Jagawat

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. — Rodney Dangerfield

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly. — Oscar Hammerstein II

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. — Janice Dickinson

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. — Victor Hugo

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. — Sun Tzu

That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read. — Haruki Murakami

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. — Peter S. Beagle

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. — Maia Wojciechowska

Oh dear white children, casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words. — W. H. Auden

I listen
as I eat the street for supper,
listen to the pain songs
of Mexico.
Flashes of returning
come with the birds. — Joseph Ceravolo

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing. — Thomas Hardy

I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees. — Susan Abulhawa

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. — Amos Oz

Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals. — John Biccard

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. — William Shakespeare

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise. — Christian Louboutin

See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing
Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton

Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden. — Joyce Carol Oates

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin. — Andrew Miller

Animals, birds, and fish confirm Your power and Your existence. — Euginia Herlihy

Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho

She screamed like a thousand birds were picking at her flesh. She screamed like the palace was burning down around her. — Marissa Meyer

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. — Roger Tory Peterson

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea... — Avijeet Das

Pretty birds and cute dogs are always necessary. I love them. But I'd never treat a dog like a human. — Yun Kouga

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some. — Jean Rhys

It's ok when people don't like you. Who said pigs have to fly with birds? — Daniel Marques

left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly — Diana Gabaldon

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? — John Townsend Trowbridge

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds — Albert Einstein

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. — Mark Nepo

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help. — Emlyn Chand

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

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. — Plutarch

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

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel De Montaigne

If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart. — John Burroughs

That is how I think of peace
and peace of mind - as timid birds
that we have to search for,
not bold ones that come
looking for us. — Margarita Engle

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable. — David Allen Sibley

I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull. — E. Lockhart

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal. — Frederick Lenz

Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces. — Ron Brackin

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide. — David Mitchell

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All I want is a peaceful place where flowers can bloom, birds can sing, and the mind can fly with joy. — Debasish Mridha

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset. — Georg Trakl

Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.
Cursed birds. — Susan Dennard

Without love we all like birds with broken wings. — Mitch Albom

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain. — Mike Bond

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher

It is a beautiful day outside. Birds are singning, flowers are blooming.... On days like these, kids like you... should be burning in hell — Toby Fox

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it. — Douglas Kennedy

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. — J. Lynn

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. — Alexander Pope

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'
The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas

At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees. — LaVyrle Spencer