Bird Quotes

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

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.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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?

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

My heart is like a singing bird.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.