Quotes on birds
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
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Eric Berne Quotes
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element.
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Robinson Jeffers Quotes
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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J.G. Holland Quotes
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
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W.H. Hudson Quotes
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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Rose F. Kennedy Quotes
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.
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John Burroughs Quotes
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
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Jacques Deval Quotes
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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Robert S. Lynd Quotes