Thoughts of Famous Birds Quotes in English

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.

- Eric Berne

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.

- Monique Duval

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

- Aesop

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

- Catherynne M. Valente

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet.  A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life… The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

- John Burroughs

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage.  They're icons of fidelity and happiness.  The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

- Mitchell Burgess

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

- Israelmore Ayivor

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south.  Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

- Mitchell Burgess

Much talking is the cause of danger.  Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.  The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

- Saskya Pandita

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

- Stephen King

Birds Sayings List in English

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen Quotation

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

- A Quotation From John Heywood

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

- Cormac McCarthy

A bird is joy incarnate.

- Myrtle Reed

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

John Lennon

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.

Robert Lynd

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

John Webster

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

Tennessee Williams

How can a bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

Birds born in cages think that flying is an illness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

The early bird catches the worm.

-William Camden

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Carly Simon

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Mehmet Murat ildan

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

Henry Van Dyke

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Roger Tory Peterson

Love is a bird… she needs to fly.

-Madonna Ciccone

A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.

Victor Hugo

Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell.

Suzy Kassem

Birds are the eyes of Heaven.

- Suzy Kassem

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

- William Cowper

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Olivier Messiaen

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

- George W. Bush

Birds will always sing a song for those that they love.

-Anthony T.Hincks

Dear God make me a bird, so I can fly far far far away from here.

- Unknown

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

-Victor Hugo

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

- Jacques Deval

If you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.

- Kyo Maclear

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Hear how the birds, on every blooming spray, With joyous music wake the dawning day.

Alexander Pope

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

-William Blake

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

Wilson Mizner

A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

-Suzy Kassem

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Birds of a feather flock together and crap on your car.

- Unknown

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Abu Bakr

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

- Chinese Proverb

In a street without any trees, birds represent the trees in the name of nature!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

- Muhammad Ali

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

-Myron Scholes

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Roger Tory Peterson *

Birds look at us, and they’re glad that we can’t fly. We look at them, and we wish that we could.

- Anthony T. Hincks

No bird soars too high if he soar with his own wings.

- William Blake

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up my head!

- William Blake

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

- Robert Lynd

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

- William Henry Hudson

One swallow does not make a summer.

- Aristotle

I know why the caged bird sings.

- Maya Angelou Download or Share

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

- Belva Plain

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

- Aesop

I hope you love birds too.  It is economical.  It saves going to heaven.

- Emily Dickinson

I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

- Charles Lindbergh

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song.

- Chinese Proverb

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

- Birds Quotes by David Letterman

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that song best.

Henry Van Dyke

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval Download or Share

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes Download or Share

Birds Quotes List

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

- J.M. Barrie

It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.

- Eric Jerome Dickey

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Birds look at us, and they’re glad that we can’t fly.We look at them, and we wish that we could.

- Anthony T. Hincks

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

- J.M. Barrie

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

- Rose F. Kennedy

Live life like a bird with freedom in the open skies and with no barriers to hold you back.

-Hermann J Steinherr

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.

- Roger Tory Peterson

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.

- Eubie Blake

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

-Chinese Proverb

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

Sun Tzu

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.'

- Hafez

You can either be the bird who’s too afraid to fly or the one who’s too busy flying to feel scared.

- Unknown

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

-Klaus Kinski

Birds Quotation in English

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

- Izaak Walton Quotes

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird.

- David Attenborough

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

-Valentina Tereshkova

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

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch but on it’s own wings. Always believe in yourself.

- Unknown

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

Ted Rall

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

David Attenborough

If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.

Frans De Waal

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Douglas Coupland

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

- Banani Ray

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

-Tommy Douglas Thoughts

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

- David Attenborough

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

- J.M. Barrie

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

- Willie Nelson

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

- Joseph Addison

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

- Nat Burton

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.

- Eric Berne

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

- Rose Kennedy

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

- Wilbur Wright

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

- Amit Ray