Quotes with birds

  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
  • Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
  • There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Eubie Blake Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
    Eubie Blake
    American pianist and composer (1887 - 1983)
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  • Isaac Watts Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Dale Carnegie Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Solomon For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
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  • J. G. Ballard I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Steven Wright Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aesop It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Pope Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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