Bird Quotes

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

Turkey, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

Her beauty was sold For an old man’s gold, She’s a bird in a gilded cage.

That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

I have a bird of paradise Upon a springing cypress tree She sits for hours while daylight dims And not a song by day sings she. Her back is of celestial blue, Her head is purple; flaming dye Upon her wings, of golden hue Like dawn’s reflection in the sky. Only when the earth is […]

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance