Bird Quotes

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

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

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

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.

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

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

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

My heart is like a singing bird.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

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.

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

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