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The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
— Wilson Mizner
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
— Josephine Hart
The spirit looks upon the DustThat fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
— Edward Richards
I want to be the bird that flies away.
— Tahereh Mafi
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
— William Carlos Williams
The bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
— Philippa Gregory
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
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
— Roger Tory Peterson
She was so goddamn beautiful, the way things that could end you were. Guns. Knives. The tawny bird of prey she resembled.
— Anne Calhoun
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.
— Benjamin Franklin
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
— Rory Bremner
The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
— Henry Van Dyke
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
— Mary Brave Bird
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
— William Cowper
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
— Victor Hugo
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
— Rebecca West
I can't take the chance that she'll leave, and I feel that this moment is tentative, like a wild bird has just landed on my shoulder.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
Of course you shall set the bird free because you know that the wings need nothing but freedom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The forest remembers that the last word can only bethe flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm — Aime Cesaire
Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.
— Nadia Janice Brown
Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
— Ani DiFranco
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
— Tahereh Mafi
Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs.
— Ilsa Madden-Mills
For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
— Louis De Bernieres
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
— Corrie Ten Boom
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.
— William Shakespeare
Shreave flicked away the dead mosquito. "Don't these things carry the bird flu too?""No Boyd, that would be a bird. — Carl Hiaasen
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.
— D.H. Lawrence
It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.
— James Schannep
Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.
— Matt Bird
She called, "Aurora!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky.
— Maureen Johnson
No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.
— Susan Glaspell
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
— Larry Bird
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.
— Brandon Sanderson
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
— Andrew Bird
More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates.
— Ashutosh Gupta
She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.
— Katherine Catmull
Way is, where way goes. As a wind that blows and the bird that soars, into the open blue, where it neither knows when do is due.
— Anthony Liccione
Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.
— Dean Koontz
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
— Antoine-Marin Lemierre
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
— Paul Watson
When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
— Larry Bird
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
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Faith is a bird that sings songs of the heart.
— Debasish Mridha
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
— Victor Hugo
But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.
— Ilchi Lee
The Chinese have a very good proverb: The bird of sorrow has to fly, but see that it does not nest in your mind.
— Angelo D. Scolozzi
It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.
— David Sedaris
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
When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
— Phoenix Desmond
Do you think trees are the new birds? Don't answer that right away.
— Julie Klausner
The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close.
— Flannery O'Connor
Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.
— Thomas McGuane
I adore the sky wearing rainbow shawl of love for the birds so that they could fly free in warmth after the storm
— Munia Khan
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
— Anzia Yezierska
People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.
— Richard Benjamin
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
— Sri Chinmoy
There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees.
— Barbara Kingsolver
