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Bird Quotes

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 10. The Finches neighbor Miss Maudie Atkinson offers this wisdom to Scout who queries her father’s instruction to Jem not to shoot his air rifle at mockingbirds. Mockingbirds are innocents that must be protected.

I’m trying to get into the rhythm of the birds. Obviously it’s a different language and I don’t quite understand it but they’re not talking gibberish, that lot.

– Liam Gallagher

The rocker tries to master birdsong’s complexities during coronavirus lockdown.

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.

– Herbert Hoover

A duck’s nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

– George Mercer Dawson

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it’s the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what’s available, what somebody happens to play for you.

– Gerry Mulligan

A forest bird never wants a cage.

– Henrik Ibsen

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

– Gordon Lightfoot

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

– Hermann Hesse

On ‘State of Affairs,’ we’re going after some names that you wouldn’t think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we’re gonna have the pick of the litter.

– Joe Carnahan

I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

– James M. Barrie

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

– Joseph Conrad

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

– John Coltrane

I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that’s not a chicken. I can’t remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty.

– John Legend

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women – the old dragon or the dolly bird – but on the whole we’ve moved away from that.

– Jo Brand

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

– John Burnside

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

– Jay Inslee

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

– Jim Henson

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

– John Burroughs

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

– John Lewis

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky’s dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana’s dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird’s dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn’t okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

– Jimmy Connors

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

– John Hench

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders… for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

– Julia Cameron

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

– Ivan Pavlov

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

– Ivan Turgenev

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

– John James Audubon

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

– James Stephens

‘Free Bird’ is timeless, ‘Sweet Home’ is timeless. They’re just timeless songs.

– Johnny Van Zant

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

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

– John Lewis

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

– John Burroughs

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