Quotes about Bird

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.

in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig

Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.

A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.