Quotes About Bird

This is my heart, a bird in the building.

Practice" To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face of the clock to twitch again, moving the dumb day forward— is this merely practice? Some believe in heaven, some in rest. We'll float, you said. Afterward we'll float between two worlds— five bronze beetles stacked like spoons in one peony blossom, drugged by lust: if I came back as a bird I'd remember that— until everyone we love is safe is what you said.

Freedom is a bird of many feathers; It may let one flutter down sometimes in the kitchengardens of the world, But the bird rests not upon any branch that grows near the ground.

You must be Mrs. Cleveland's friend that's come to stay,' said a woman in a dark felt hat trimmed with a bird's body.

Here I am, 5 o'clock in the morning, stuffing breadcrumbs up a dead bird's butt!

Today she told me about the Crow King.

A bird's wing, comrades,' he said, 'is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.' 'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?' 'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly.

On one of the shores the cuckoo was counting my years.

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain. And that's why, when you find yourself face to face with one, you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'" .... "NICE BIRD, asshole," said Locke.

Memories are a bane, little bird, like a thorn lodged in your eye. Cut them out, if you can, or they'll do nothing but haunt you in your dotage.

And that moment when the bird sings very closeTo the music of what happens.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

And with that, away he went. You never see a bird work so since you was born. He laid into his work like a nigger, and the way he hove acorns into that hole for about two hours and a half was one of the most exciting and astonishing spectacles I ever struck. He

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.

You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow.

It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn't know it. You didn't feel its departure. You only really knew it when it was restored, like some rare wild bird which lived and sang within you not by decree but by choice.

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!

A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo!