More quotations tagged with “birds”
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
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.
—Robert Lynd
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
—Nat Burton
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