If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
Darrell Royal

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
George Crumb

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
Mary Harris Jones

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
Joanna Lumley

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

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
Colleen McCullough

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
Abu Bakr

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
John Masefield

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Saadi

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe