Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

—Saskya Pandita

More quotations tagged with “birds”

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

—Rose Kennedy

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

—Mitchell Burgess

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

—Mitchell Burgess

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11 Jul 2015 Added