Birds Quotes

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

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.

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

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

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.

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

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

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

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.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

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

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

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

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.

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.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

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

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Feathers predate birds.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

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?

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

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.