A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~Chinese Proverb

Get This Quote.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose Kennedy

Get This Quote.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
~Mitchell Burgess

Get This Quote.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
~Sergei Eisenstein

Get This Quote.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
~David Letterman

Get This Quote.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
~Jacques Deval

Get This Quote.

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

Get This Quote.

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Birds of the air will tell of murders past.
I am asham'd to hear such fooleries!
~Christopher Marlowe

Get This Quote.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
~Emily Dickinson

Get This Quote.

I know why the caged bird sings.
~Maya Angelou

Get This Quote.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
~Charles Lindbergh

Get This Quote.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
~Joseph Addison

Get This Quote.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
~Charles Lindbergh

Get This Quote.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
~Darrell Royal

Get This Quote.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
~Aesop

Get This Quote.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~Saskya Pandita

Get This Quote.

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

Get This Quote.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~Bob Dylan

Get This Quote.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
~William Golding

Get This Quote.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
~Mitchell Burgess

Get This Quote.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
~Gale Norton

Get This Quote.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Eric Berne

Get This Quote.

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
~John Burroughs

Get This Quote.

The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.
~George Crook

Get This Quote.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~Robert Lynd

Get This Quote.

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
~Nat Burton

Get This Quote.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
~Izaak Walton

Get This Quote.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.
~Mike Thompson

Get This Quote.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
~William Blake

Get This Quote.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
~Ted Rall

Get This Quote.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~William Henry Hudson

Get This Quote.