Quotes of: Bird Keyword

You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest.

Jamaican

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will contin...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

I'm lying in my room listening to the birds outside. I used to think they sang because they were happy. But then I learned on a nature show they're really showing off. Trying to lure in some other bird so they can mate with it. Or let the other birds...

Jumping Off Swings

...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds," be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'Thi...

The Pale King

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained h...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Emily's House

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

The Golden Bird: New and selected poems

It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.

The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Bird After Bird

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

Bird After Bird

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie." "Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

Bird After Bird

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

The Birds That Never Flew

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

A Bird Without Wings

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I dance for a living. At the early bird special you can find me—doing the worm.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Sweet Bird of Youth

Well, sooner or later, at some point in your life, the thing that you lived for is lost or abandoned, and then ... you die, or find something else.

Sweet Bird of Youth

Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle