Best window & bird Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!”

Way May Today Sleep Sun Months Bird Window Shakes Cherish Backwards Venus

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

Author:Patti Davis

“I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.”

Sound Fronts Computer Bird Rain Window Guitar Finals Studios Chickens Hanging Out Farms Hitting Cricket Vocal Files Sound Of Rain

Author:Jason Mraz

“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.”

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.”

Looks Artist Religious Wonder Study Sky Produce Flower Praying Bird Window Green

Author:Antonin Dvorak

“Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.”

Needs May Practice Singing Bird Window Sunlight Reminders Streaming

Book:Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

Source: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

“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

“When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!”

Walks Rooms Bird Window Zero Take Me Seconds Oxygen Living Room Chimneys

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.”

Ifs Knows Looks Sound Building Like You Bird Window Glasses Bats Precise Navigate Swerve

Author:DJ Spooky

“When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.”

Firsts Looks Black Morning Bird Window Wake Up Clouds Ledges

Author:Saul Williams

“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.”

Ifs Looks Hurt Sky Bird Window It Hurts Cages Bird Cage

Author:Klaus Kinski

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

Ifs Love Joy Peace Morning Sun Fire Bird Tasks Window Coffee Rays Leafs Good Morning Fire Escapes

Author:Anais Nin

“I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.”

Ifs Children Wanted School Saws Bird Window Ambitious Adventurous

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.”

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”

Source: Marjorie Daw and Other People

“The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.”

Made Light House White Sun Tree Fans Wall Bird Shadow Garden Window Blind Melody Blank Bedroom Pauses Leafs Transparent Fingerprints

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.”

Knows Way Years Persons Found Felt Hurt Wealth Mountain Bird Window Tables Wine Hunger Ill Hungry Bread Curious Plenty Odd Touched Entering Hurt Me Noon Trembling Lone Berries Crumbs Dine

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.”

Hands Sides Space Car Bird Shots Window Ran Engines Thrust Parking Unthinkable Reverends Parking Space

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?”

Firsts Remember Left Behinds Existence Saws Blood Dying Bird Shadow Negative Window Wings Fingers Proof Spots Remember When Left Behind

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“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

“One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.”

Knows Feels Believe Moments Hands Together Beautiful Knowing Alive Willing One Day Pure Bird Window Spending Tiny Intense Flew Umbrella Time Together Humming Hummingbirds

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

Song Fall Summer Bird Window Autumn Yellow Sigh Fly Away Yellow Leaves

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”

Want Two Together Courses Voice Wind Bird Window Bones Want Me You Want Me

Author:Margaret Atwood

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”

Way Looks Light Poor Arms Tomorrow Bird Standing Window Dresses Cups Dawn Fragile Offering Handful Cotton Barefoot Birdsong

Book:Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Source: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

“So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.”

Hands Mother Song Teacher Air Bird Shots Window Silent Valleys Swear Assembly Peeta Stools Up In The Air

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.”

Said Remember Rooms Air Wall Bird Window Trapped They Said Fury

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.”

Body Broken Late Bird Evidence Window Foolish Assumption Too Late Comical

Book:Liberator

Source: Liberator

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

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