Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ocean, Sea, Bird

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.11, Hueber Verlag

• Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Rain, Moving

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Hunting, Sea

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.7, Hamilton Books

• When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hunting, Bird, Flying

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Bird, Chance

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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