Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore – While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping.
Bird Quotes
In a contest between a hawk and dove, the hawk has a great advantage, not because it is a better bird but because it is a bigger bird with lethal talons and a highly developed will to use them.
“What kind of bird are you, if you can’t fly?” said he. To this the duck replied, “What kind of bird are you if you can’t swim?” and dived into the pond.
Words are heavy like rocks, they weigh you down. If birds could talk they wouldn’t be able to fly.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Be like the bird in flight… pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Growing up, my Mom always claimed to feel bad when a bird would slam head-first into our living room window. If she “really” felt bad, though, she’d have moved the bird feeder outside.
