Hummingbirds Quotes

• A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

  John B. Tabb

  Flower, Rainbow, Lightning

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

  James Oppenheim

  Flower, Heart, Darts

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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• I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

  Shailene Woodley

  Now And Then

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• As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Flower, Land, Long

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Flower, Air, Bird

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “First Thought Best Thought”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Blessed, Quality

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• You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Flower, Moving, Animal

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• either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Stills

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Heart, Wings

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, Wings

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• We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.

  Wangari Maathai

  Animal, Bombarded By, May

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• Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

  Nathalia Crane

  Flower, Emptiness, Scrutinize

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “Lava Lane, and Other Poems”

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• Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Beautiful, Parent, Miniatures

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

  Mary Oliver

  Blue, Sunflower, Plums

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

  Kathryn Lasky

  Twilight, Eagles, Bird

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Butterfly, Simple

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• furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love

  Megan McCafferty

  Heart, Hello, Furious

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.354, Broadway Books

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• Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

  Laurel Lea

  Thinking, Light, Sense Of Humor

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• In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

  Francesca Lia Block

  People, Mexico, Amulets

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Missing Angel Juan”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, Book, Wind

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• I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Culture

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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