Top Bird Quotes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel
I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.
Tiffeny Milbrett
Ethel Merman 
Bettie Page 
Walter Benjamin 
Neil Armstrong 
Dennis Rodman 
Brian Lamb 
Byron Dorgan 
Richie Sambora All Bird Quotes
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
Jay Inslee 
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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
Norman MacCaig
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter
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The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
William John Wills
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I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson
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Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin
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Popular Bird Authors
Victor HugoBenjamin DisraeliGeorge EliotHenry Ward BeecherDavid Herbert LawrenceErnest HemingwayFranklin D. RooseveltWilliam BlakeDennis RodmanC. S. LewisJoseph ConradJose MartiEthel MermanAnais NinGermaine Greer
James AllenDrew BarrymoreDouglas AdamsJoe PantolianoJohn HenchJames M. BarrieSalvador DaliTrevor DunnKlaus KinskiNorman MacCaigCoco ChanelCharlotte BronteJim HensonHenrik IbsenNikita Khrushchev
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