Bird Quotations | Page 2

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog.

My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

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.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

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

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

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.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

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

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

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

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

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

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

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

We are losing the battle against this particular avian influenza outbreak. It is a very nasty bird flu virus.

We are awaiting for further results. We will continue to investigate whether she had been in contact with anything that related to bird flu,

There are some challenges we deal with, primarily people management more than bird management.

Until now, we reported 63 suspected (cases) of bird flu.

Until now, three children are being treated in a hospital ... two are suspected of having the symptoms of bird flu based on the lab tests. The other one is still under observation.

Until now, three children are being treated in a hospital . . . two are suspected of having the symptoms of bird flu based on the lab tests. The other one is still under observation,

Whether or not her death was because of bird flu, we will wait before confirming, as is standard, from a laboratory in Hong Kong where her blood samples were sent to. The results would be known in about six days.

What we're seeing here is a vaccine which does induce an immune response which we think would protect against bird flu. That's a very big step forward.

When we got close to it, the bird flew away.

We're aware that people worry about H5N1 in hogs... but any safeguarding now would be from the bird standpoint.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

We like a bird in hand to move forward. This puts us in a really, really difficult position.

We know a person can get the disease from a bird but we're not certain if a person can get it from a dog.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique, a clique of people. Who all believed in one thing: gettin' high. And playin'.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.