Quotes

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

It is the beautiful bird which gets caged
-Chinese Proverbs

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
-J.G. Holland

God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
-Turkish Proverb

Birds of a feather will gather together.
-Robert Burton

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

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
-Terri Guillemets

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds
-Aesop

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
-George Mercer Dawson

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come
-Chinese Proverbs

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.
-Henrik Ibsen

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
-Joseph Addison

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
-Bret Harte

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
-Wilbur Wright

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air
-Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
-William Henry Hudson

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
-Rose F. Kennedy

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.
-George W. Bush