Bird Quotes

• Wherever there are birds, there is hope.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  There Is Hope

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• You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

  Heather O'Neill

  Beautiful, Imagine, Prettiest

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• Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

  Adyashanti

  Sound, Different, Relevant

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Flower, Heart, Autumn

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• may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Secret, May

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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  Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Healing, Fighting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House

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• Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Brave Face, Faces, Tomorrow

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• I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

  Richard Peck

  Wings, Fixing, Saws

  Richard Peck (2005). “The River Between Us”, p.42, Penguin

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• The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

  Carly Simon

  Mind, Sound, Noise

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• In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Animal, Men, Perfect

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• Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

  John Simm

  Writing, Actors, Want

  "John Simm: this much I know" by Olly Richards", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

  Ross Macdonald

  Hurt, Moving, Wish

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• I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Superstitions, Nonsense

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Ides of March: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  People, Way, Civilized

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Records, Invasion

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

  Amy Tan

  Dream, Drinking, Tears

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• My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Kings, Shut Up

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• The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

  Robert Bridges

  Lonely, Lying, Land

  Elkin Mathews, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Richard Watson Dixon (1897). “Garland of New Poetry”

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• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  Pat Paulsen

  Wings, Middle, Wing Chun

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• If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

  Frank Bolles

  Song, Nature, Heart

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• It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awareness, Plant

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• Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Loss, Self

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• A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, New Year, Inspiration

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• A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Dark, Voice

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