Bird Quotes

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

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

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow.

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

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The early bird gets a parking spot and the next guy gets a ticket ... that's how it works for us unfortunately.

A bird which eats berries can be caught, but not a bird that eats wood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

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

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

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

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.