Quotes about Bird
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Psalm 102:6
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
- Proverbs 1:17
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- Jeremiah 12:9
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
- Hosea 9:11
Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?
- Amos 3:5
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
- Pablo Picasso
This pretty bird, O! how she flies and sings,[1] But could she do so if she had not wings? Her wings bespeak my faith, her songs my peace; When I believe and sing my doubtings cease.
- John Bunyan
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
- John Keats
A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.
- James Allen
But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave.
- Virginia Woolf
She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.
- Virginia Woolf
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.
- Matshona Dhliwayo