Bird Quotes

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.'

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.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

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.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

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

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.