Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Julian Fellowes

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

Joan Fontaine

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

John Heywood

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

John Henry Newman

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Josephine Hart

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Joseph Wood Krutch

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Josh Billings

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

Leonard Cohen

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say

Linda Hogan

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Lilith Saintcrow

Are you listening, little bird?

Louis Aragon

The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

Gordon Lightfoot

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

Joanna Lumley

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Suzanne Weyn

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

Rick Riordan

You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.

Richard Dawkins

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Robinson Jeffers

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Rob Thurman

As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.

Victor Hugo

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Robert Frost

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....

Robert Frost

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Saadi

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

Saadi

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Susan Blackmore

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Vikas Swarup

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

Samuel Johnson

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

Rufus Wainwright

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

Ronald Reagan

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Stephen King

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Philippa Gregory

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

James Patterson

So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.