Birds Quotes

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.

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.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

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.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

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.

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.

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

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

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?

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.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

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

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

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

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

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.