“Look!” whispered Julia. A thrush had alighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces. Perhaps it had not seen them. It was in the sun, they in the shade. It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though […]
Bird Quotes
The early bird gets the worm
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore – While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping.
In a contest between a hawk and dove, the hawk has a great advantage, not because it is a better bird but because it is a bigger bird with lethal talons and a highly developed will to use them.
“What kind of bird are you, if you can’t fly?” said he. To this the duck replied, “What kind of bird are you if you can’t swim?” and dived into the pond.
Words are heavy like rocks, they weigh you down. If birds could talk they wouldn’t be able to fly.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Be like the bird in flight… pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
