Best bird & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.”

Thinking Sometimes Light Eye Actors Lost Views Bird Traits Hitting

Author:Allison Williams

“My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.”

Littles Said Sometimes Father Lost Bird Died Bankers Wheelchairs Stockbrokers

Author:Roger Tory Peterson

“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes America Powerful Attention Gone Sky Masters Ought Authority Bird Bills Congress Symbols Range Ran Soar Eagles Herds Surveys Selected Buffalo

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.”

Sometimes Hands Seems Alive Bird Glasses Broke Cracks Inanimate Objects

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”

Thinking Knows May Sometimes Might Courses Individual Emotion Creative Bird Flight Interfere Sentimental Creative Power Migratory Birds

Book:Survival

Source: Survival

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

Sometimes Bird Frozen Worms Scholes Early Bird

Author:Myron Scholes

“In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.”

World Humans Sometimes Night Song Sun Waste Bird Freezing Human Love

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Even big-bird gets sad sometimes”

Sometimes Bigs Bird Big Bird

Author:Andrew VanWyngarden

“Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing.”

Feels Sometimes Laughing Bird Window Jealousy Jealous Black Humor

Author:Demetri Martin

“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.”

People Ifs Believe Stills Sometimes Matter Hard Enough Sound Tree Flower Listening Quiet Bird I Still Believe

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.”

Thinking Feels Trying Said Sometimes Feelings Today Beautiful Doors Bird Impress Rabbits Advancing Squirrels Beauty Love

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.”

People Ifs Sometimes Age School Left Church Behinds Wonder Sky Bird England Moved Raised Clouds Eight Distraction Kites Methodists

Author:Matthea Harvey

“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.”

“Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever." But as [Phil Wood] said to me, "Man, Bird listened to everything."”

Thinking Men Wells Said Sometimes Play Study Bird Okay Woods Solo Horns Charlie

Author:Jon Gordon

“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.”

Men Said Sometimes Past Used Guy Walks Listening Musician Bird Towns Bars Checks Traditional France Greek Restaurants Hanging Out Standing Out Horns Buddy Just Listen Reacting

Author:Jon Gordon

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”

Has Beens Sometimes Bird Clouds Woods Variety Wild Birds

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.”

Years Important Sometimes Community Millions Conditions Bird Garden Climate Species Locals Rely Soil Native Insects Indigenous Wildlife

Author:David Suzuki

“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.”

Humans Wells Sometimes Human Beings Known Bird Passing Passings Well Known Worms Time Passing

Book:The essential Turgenev

Source: The essential Turgenev

“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.”

Looks Sometimes Running Romance Games Special Walking Singing Bird Beach Hiking Camping Playing Games Jogging Special To Me Like Being Alone Great Outdoors

Author:Larry Wilcox

“He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.”

Thinking Long Two Sometimes Hands White Fronts Bird Bother Knees Traps Soap Dainty White Birds

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”

Men Sometimes Certain Fine Clothes Bird Add Recipes Feathers Spices Fine Feathers

Book:Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.”

“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Wonder Pieces Written Minutes Identity Return Bird Garden Definitions Fortunate Dictionary

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.”

Knows Stills Country Sometimes House Streets Bird Garden Window Mirrors Longing Yesterday Evening Beloved Shops Dizzy Your Presence Pensive Country Houses

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.”

Thinking Wells Sometimes Facts Color Bird Caught Flames Frank Jewels Wrens

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.”

Kind Sometimes Nice Wind Cold Bird Towns Wings South Winter Ice Snowy Beaks

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."”

“They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.”

Feels I Can Sometimes Memories Behinds Bed Bird Dresses Corners Get Back Bottles Guests Trapped Buttons Scent Pearls Sigh Curtains Flew Tangled Fluttering Handkerchiefs Windowpane

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.”

“I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Seems Lines Forget Bird Forget It Symphony Back Again Overhead Power Lines

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The kakapo is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something - but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Seems Running Bits Tree Land Six Bird Adults Wings Seven Forgotten Flying Fats Worried Pounds Bricks Seven Pounds

Author:Douglas Adams

“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.”

Sometimes Sun Air Blood Bird Autumn Veins Beam One Of Those Days

Book:The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

Source: The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.”

Writing Mind Sometimes Waiting Bird Shots Blind Wings Faster Pens Scare Flash Occasional Countryside Roaming Gunners

Author:E. B. White

“You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.”

Thinking Believe Looks Mean Doe Soul Sometimes Problem Heaven Animal Tree Dog Flower Bird Horse Don't Believe Unfair Theological Nun Parking Cement Baptized Parking Lot

Book:The House of the Scorpion

Source: The House of the Scorpion

“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.”

Source: Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden

“I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.”

Feels Sometimes Technology Bird Feathers

Author:Yves Rossy

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Ifs Feels Wells Sometimes Moments Feelings Seems Heaven Known Air Sky Strange Bird Claims Blue Property Mere Breathe Flying Flight Aviation Belonging Well Known Bugs Stimulus Exhilaration

Book:Song of the Sky

Source: Song of the Sky

“Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.”

Writing Ends Sometimes Song Bird Killing Songwriting Feathers Writing Songs

Author:Tom Waits

“They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'”

Ifs Has Beens Sometimes Might Fall Quiet Bird Saved Flying Greek Desirable Clown Arrows Archer

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”

Sometimes Bird Bigger Abandon Locked Cages Never Quit Locked Up Captivity

Author:Dave McKean

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