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Quotes About Bird

The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.
~ Roberto Bolano
Silence is love just as your raspy voice is a bird.
~ Roberto Bolano
His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin...
~ Roberto Bolano
Todo realismo visceral era una carta de amor, el pavoreo demencial de un pájaro idiota a la luz de la luna, algo bastante vulgar y sin importancia.
~ Roberto Bolano
Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle. Once the voyage is complete, the vehicle can be destroyed. Thus the Vedic ritualists did not develop the idea of the temple. If such care was given to constructing a bird, it was to make it fly. What remained on earth was an inert shell of dust, dry mud, and bricks. It could be left behind, like a carcass.
~ Roberto Calasso
It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift is song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
~ Lisa See
spring comes, flowers fragrant, bird sings.
~ Lisa See
though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?
~ Lorrie Moore
The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Limmershin is a very odd little bird, but he knows how to tell the truth.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.
~ Russell Hoban
You can't make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup." "Unless it's a Harris Hawk.
~ S. M. Stirling
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
~ Eva Le Gallienne
If there's anything filthier than a religion-junkey, it's a disease-bird.
~ Alfred Bester
Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.
~ Alice Hoffman
Under the covers we danced the good, slow dance, and she let loose with that laugh I loved so much, the one as sweet and happy as the song of a bird. And I did not care to remember then that even the most predatory of birds, the shrike, can sing.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
crow is more agile so it can turn and maneuver more
~ Joel Osteen
I sing as the bird singsThat lives in the boughs.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"My name is Margalo," said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. "I come from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; I come from vales of meadowsweet, and I love to whistle."
~ E. B. White
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!"
~ Edgar Allan Poe
To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
She told me she worked in the morningAnd started to laugh,I told her I didn'tAnd crawled off to sleep in the bath.And when I awokeI was alone,This bird had flown.So I lit a fire,Isn't it goodNorwegian wood.
~ Anonymous