Quotes About Birds

She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place.

the haunts of certain nocturnal birds which during the day remain in their caves but at night come out to feed.… At nightfall these birds come out from their caves with such an outcry and varying clamor that one cannot help being afraid until one realizes the reason.

Contained in the raven's untold tale was some knowledge, some wisdom the bird had gathered in his flight. Secret even from God. Perhaps the birds were telling it still, and no ears to hear.

The reason as to why birds never get knocked my air crafts is that they when they hear the sound of the air crafts they run for their lives

I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his

You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

Dark wings, dark words.

Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.

Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that's even darker.

One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder.

Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

The crow calls the raven black.

It was the singers who taught the First Men to send messages by raven … but in those days, the birds would speak the words. The trees remember, but men forget, and so now they write the messages on parchment and tie them round the feet of birds who have never shared their skin." Old

The pie is meant to be the marriage, and a true marriage has in it many sorts of things—joy and grief, pain and pleasure, love and lust and loyalty. So it is fitting that there be birds of many sorts. No man ever truly knows what a new wife will bring him.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

the whole thing guarded by a tall, thick hedge of fuchsias that rustled mysteriously with birds.

you reached a small half-moon bay, rimmed with white sands and great piles of dried ribbon-weed that had been thrown up by the winter storms and lay along the beach like large, badly made birds' nests.

The Magenpies, obviously suspecting Larry of being a dope smuggler, had fought valiantly with the time of bicarbonate of soda, and had scattered its contents along a line of books, so that they looked like a snow-covered mountain range.

yellow as a primrose, some great fat white doves

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.

Girls chattering is like birds." He fluttered his fingers at his ears. "You hear only the notes.