Quotes by Bird Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings. Antoine-Marin Lemierre walks wings bird When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound. Anton Chekhov dog bird order Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. Antonio Damasio pain feelings bird The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. Anzia Yezierska flight fruit bird I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds. Aoife O'Donovan fascinated flight bird I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly. Aoife O'Donovan bird ideas thinking A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. Archibald MacLeish flight should bird What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like! Ardyth Kennelly clothes bird men The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again. Art Pepper musician sound bird I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free. Arthur Darvill caged stealing bird Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. Arthur J. Lamb bird beauty men A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. Arthur Miller springtime bird men By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti practicality nests bird Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. Audre Lorde feet tree bird Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. Audrey Niffenegger nerves dark bird He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird. Audrey Niffenegger lonely bird people absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird Audrey Niffenegger nerves dark bird Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam arrows voice bird Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. Augusten Burroughs detours christmas bird Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing. Augustus William Hare findings shadow bird «1234567891011»