God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Herbert Gold

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
Boyle Roche

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
Norman MacCaig

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

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 consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
Brian Lamb

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Trevor Dunn

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
Bettie Page

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

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

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
John Coltrane

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

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.
Richie Sambora

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