Bird Quotes

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

The early bird catches the worm.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

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

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?