Quotes of: Bird Keyword

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

The Cat Who Sang for the Birds

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird’s wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I’m pretty sure that’s it!

C. JoyBell C.

Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

James D. Watson

Birds are caught with seed, men with money.

Armenian

A chattering bird builds no nest.

Cameroonian

Singing birds don't build nests.

Cameroonian

All clever men are birds of prey.

English

It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.

Malagasy

There are no birds in last year's nest.

Spanish

Birds of a feather flock together.

Traditional

If you're a bird... I'm a bird...

The Notebook

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and are respectful--ultimately the birds wi...

What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

[after Chava elopes] Tevye: [singing] Little bird... Little Chaveleh. I don't understand what's happening today. Everything is all a blur... All I can see is a happy child, the sweet little bird you were, Chaveleh, Chaveleh... Little bird, little Cha...

Fiddler on the Roof

Dead song-birds make a sad meal.

Chinese

Every bird has a hawk above it.

Croatian

God feeds the birds that use their wings.

Danish

Cats don't catch the old birds.

Dutch

When the cage is ready the bird is flown.

French