Quotes on Birds

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Author: Aesop

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.

Author: John Audubon

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

Author: John Audubon

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.

Author: John Audubon

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Author: Robert Bakker

Feathers predate birds.

Author: Robert Bakker

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

Author: Abu Bakr

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

Author: William Bartram

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.

Author: Eric Berne

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Author: Carol Christ

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Author: Larry David

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

Author: Janice Dickinson

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

Author: Hilda Doolittle

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Author: Henry Dyke

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

Author: Bob Dylan

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.

Author: Sergei Eisenstein

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Author: Martin Fischer

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Author: Johann Goethe

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

Author: Peter Grant

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Author: Lawrence Hargrave

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.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

Author: Jack Herer

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Author: Burl Ives

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Author: Phillip Johnson

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Author: Chuck Jones

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Author: Joanna Lumley

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.

Author: Robert Lynd

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

Author: John Masefield

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.

Author: Bernard Meltzer

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Author: Amos Oz

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.

Author: Saskya Pandita

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

Author: Roger Peterson

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.

Author: Roger Peterson

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Author: William Phelps

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.

Author: Ted Rall

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

Author: Erich Remarque

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

Author: Darrell Royal

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

Author: Saadi

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.

Author: Carl Sandburg

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.

Author: Gore Vidal

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

Author: Alfred Wallace

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

Author: Rachel Ward

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Author: Bill Watterson

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

Author: Morris West

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

Author: Gilbert White