Bird Quotes

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Sorry, Small, Dead

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Ambition, Wings

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

Human, Free, Net

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

Song, Sing, Answer

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe

Wants, Hug, Cage

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith, Dark, Light

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

Morning, Fire, Through

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams

Family, Small, Hands

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

Life, Dreams, Die

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Different, Same

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good, Bad, Enough

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Soul, Earth, Autumn

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Friendship, Web, Nest

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

Same, Away, Her

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Dance, Learn, Rather

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

High, Wings, Soars

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Dreams, Time, Greatest

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

Success, Seems, Full

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

Life, Flower, Wanted

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel

Wanted, Heavily, Weigh

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo

Soul, Wings, Illusions

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Dance, Learn, Rather

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Earth, Fish, Ocean

London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter

Life, Best, Failure

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson

Seen, Tree, Ant

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
Drew Barrymore

Love, Live, May

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Demetri Martin

Same, Child, Door

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