Bird Quotes

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

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.

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

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

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

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

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.

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

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.