Bird Quotes

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

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.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.