Bird quotes

Bird

1.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman Actor, Narrator

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Bird

"Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair."

Hair Bird Temptation
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Richard Bach Author
Bird

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly."

Inspirational Bird Flying
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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Bird

"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."

Believe Bird Envy
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Bird

"This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly."

Fall Bird Teach
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Rose Kennedy Socialite
Bird

"I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"

Giving Bird Storm
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Rosa Luxemburg Political Theorist, Activist
Bird

"Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same."

Song Bird Rude
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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Bird

"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."

Bird Flying Hunting
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Zhuangzi Philosopher
Bird

"If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep."

Bird Sheep Likes And Dislikes
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Bird

"If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song.""

Love Song Bird
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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
Bird

"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens."

Song Heaven Bird
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Bird

"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."

Bird Tunes Hills
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