Meaningful Quotes about Birds As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. John Adams
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air. Wilbur Wright
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. Alfred Russel Wallace
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. Carl Sandburg
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Wilson Lynd
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. William Bartram
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. John Masefield
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Burton |