If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Adams
The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983. – Michael Greger
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death. – Myron Scholes
India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird. – Narendra Modi
Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don’t need to be subsidizing PBS. It’s time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with ‘Dora the Explorer’ and ‘Bob the Builder.’ – Mark McKinnon
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. – Max Brooks
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus’ body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove. – Max Heindel
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. – Jose Marti
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song. – John Burroughs
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I’d say you were crazy. – Jenna McCarthy
I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it’s guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies. – Kyle Dunnigan
I’m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I’m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy. – Jimmy Piersall
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation. – Lynn Coady
I’ve had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I’ve always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind’s eye more than: ‘I’m gonna draw a dog now.’ It isn’t thought out: ‘Now I’m gonna draw a bird.’ They just appear. – John Lurie
Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it’s the end of the world. But ‘Bird Box’ hasn’t convinced me of that. Is ‘Bird Box’ instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don’t think so. But it’s fun to consider. – Josh Malerman
I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that’s how ‘Bird Box’ got to where it is now. – Josh Malerman
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. – Marilyn Monroe
Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like ‘Simple Man’ and ‘Free Bird’ and ‘Alabama.’ I wasn’t prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs. – Johnny Colt
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma’s favorite. – Kris Carr
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. – James Whitcomb Riley
After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.’ – Kirk Hammett
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It’s about the least flavorful bird on the planet. – Kimbal Musk
The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing. – Lawrence Hargrave
As a memorial, I’d like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I’d just like it to say: ‘Maeve Binchy, storyteller’ and people could look at the name and remember that they’d seen it somewhere else. – Maeve Binchy
Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children’s favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were ‘Big Bird.’ – Joan Ganz Cooney
