Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. L. Travers

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Leonardo da Vinci

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

Leonardo da Vinci

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Olivier Messiaen

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Olivier Messiaen

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Mark Twain

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Pat Gallagher

That's an exciting bird to find because they're so tiny and out on the sand where they're hard to find.

Philippa Gregory

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

Peter Weir

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.