Quotes About Bird

don't know what it is. They'll forget that that thing flying through the sky is beyond all words, that it's an expression of the immensity of life. It's actually an extraordinary and wondrous thing that flies through the sky. But as soon as we name it, we think we know what it is. We see "bird," and we almost discount it.

What house would ask for Vengeance to perch heavy, defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

His delicate, pale hands reminded Dreyfus of the imprint of a bird's wings in ancient rock.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

I wish I could build you a cage, little bird, or a beautiful tower, to keep you safe from the corrupt, cynical world. You don't know how precious it is to be naive and innocent. I only want to protect you, so you can sing and be free like the golden bird you were born to be.

How does she do that?" Bird asked. I didn't have to ask who the she was. I knew it was Tiffany. Nor did I have to ask what Bird was referring to. Jason and Mac were leaning toward Tiffany, listening to whatever it was she was saying, like it was the most interesting thing in the world. "Does she wear, like, turn-'em-stupid perfume or something?" Bird asked.

If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow.'13

It's all right, she said. It's all right. That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

I had the feeling of being in a construction elevator suspended in the skeleton of an unfinished building and between two concrete walls that were shedding tears like bird droppings.

Stop that! What were you doing, perched on the window ledge like a big chicken? Despite his aches and irritations, he couldn't help but grin. I prefer to think of myself as a more noble bird, like a hawk. I'm sure you do. But you flew like a chicken than any hawk I've seen.

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.

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

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.