Bird Quotes

This is for the birds.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Free as a bird.

Once upon a time there was a bird sanctuary in which hundreds of Baltimore orioles lived together happily. The refuge consisted of a forest entirely surrounded by a high wire fence. When it was put up, a pack of foxes who lived nearby protested that it was an arbitrary and unnatural boundary. However, they did […]

Charm the birds out of trees.

“The birds can fly, an’ why can’t I? Must we give in” says he with a grin, ” ‘T the bluebird an’ phoebe are smarter ‘n we be? Jest fold our hands and see the swaller An’ the blackbird an’ catbird beat us holler?… Jest show me that ! er prove ‘t the bat hez […]

The early bird gets the worm.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.