bird quotes

• Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. (Francis Beaumont) [faith/bird/wings/willpower]
• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. (Henry Ward Beecher) [bird]
• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. (Walter Benjamin) [bird/experience]
• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake) [bird/high/wings]
• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. (Robert Browning) [love/angel/bird/wonder]
• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Dale Carnegie) [bird]
• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. (Joseph Conrad) [art/wild/bird]
• 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. (Ernest Hemingway) [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. (Victor Hugo) [bird/wings]
• A forest bird never wants a cage. (Henrik Ibsen) [bird]
• A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. (Martin Luther) [servant/bird/land]
• Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! (John Milton) [bird/silense & noise//melancholy]
• He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. (Thomas Paine) [reality/imagination/bird]
• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. (Mark Twain) [bird]
• Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. (Thomas Wolfe) [bird]
• A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? (Drew Barrymore) [love/bird]
• You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. (Tori Amos) [bird]
• Love is a bird, she needs to fly. Let all the hurt inside of you die. ( Madonna) [love/bird/needs]
• Now that it's out, I feel free - like a bird that's been let out of a cage. For the first time in my life, I feel free to live my life, my dreams. (LaToya Jackson) [bird/time/life/life]
• Sweet Bird of Youth. (Christian Slater) [bird/youth]
• “That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.” (Mel Gibson) [child/think/bird]
• “But that kind of went along with the imagery, for me, of the bird, the flightiness, the lightness, the light-footedness. So we literally timed out that scene in one shot to be the same exact timing as what Hitchcock and Janet Leigh had originally done, down to where she puts the money.” (Anne Heche) [bird]
• “Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.” (Sharon Tate) [flower/ugly/bird]
• Is the foolish dog, bark at the flying bird. (Bob Marley) [bird]

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