Quotes and Sayings About Bird

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Motivation #Bird

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
-- Aberjhani

#Art #Flower #Bird

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
-- Abu Bakr

#Morning #Bird #Matter

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
-- Aesop

#Being Yourself #Bird #Fine

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
-- Aimee Mann

#Sweet #Bird #Cages

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Sweet #Views #Bird

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Country #Greatness #Bird

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
-- Al-Ghazali

#Song #Bird #Claims

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
-- Alan Cohen

#Letting Go #Starting Over #Bird

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
-- Alan Coren

#Bird #Sparrows #Pigeons

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Bird #Evolution #Flight

Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Bird #Earth #Dinosaurs

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Bird #Body #Fossils

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Class #Bird #Dinosaurs

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Baby #Bird #Church

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
-- Alan King

#Bird #Mind #Special

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
-- Alan Perlis

#Technology #Bird #Worms

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
-- Alberto Moravia

#Song #Bird #Theme

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
-- Aldous Huxley

#Bird #Mouths #Imagine

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
-- Alejandra Pizarnik

#Bird

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Thinking #Bird #Flying

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Thinking #Bird #Flying

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
-- Alexander Pope

#Bird #Blooming #Joyous

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
-- Alexander Pope

#Character #People #Bird

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Success #Bird #Opinion

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Bird #Bills #Herons

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.
-- Ali Banisadr

#Reading #Thinking #Bird

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
-- Alice Meynell

#Echoes #Bird #Too Much

Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.
-- Ally Carter

#Government #Bird #Trying

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
-- Alma Gluck

#Butterfly #Artist #Bird