Bird Quotes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

Love is a serious mental disease.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

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.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

No empty handed man can lure a bird

My heart is like a singing bird.

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

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

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

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.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

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

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

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.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

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.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

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

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.

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.