100+ Bluebird Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?

- John Townsend Trowbridge

topic: Giving, Bird, Bluebird

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Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

- Woody Allen

topic: Anxiety, Bluebird

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

- Lin Yutang

source: Yutang Lin (1950). “On the Wisdom of America”

topic: Moments, Bluebird

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.236, Courier Corporation

topic: Retreat, Neighbor, Bluebird

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Niece, Animal, Sky, Bluebird, Birds In Flight

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

- Cole Porter

source: Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

topic: Passion, Blue, Singing, Bluebird

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

- John Burroughs

topic: Blue, Color, Sky, Bluebird

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

- Yip Harburg

source: Song: Over the Rainbow

topic: Rainbow, Littles, Pilots, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebird

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

- Irving Berlin

topic: Song, Blue, Sky, Bluebird, Blue Sky

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

- Paul McCartney

source: Song: Bluebird

topic: Night, Love Is, Doors, Bluebird

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

- Edwin Way Teale

topic: Men, Half, Half Life, Bluebird

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Heart, Want, Chaos, Inhale, Bluebird

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

topic: Hue, Coats, Azure, Bluebird, Welcome Back

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sympathy, Bluebird, Morning Walk

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

- Robert Breault

topic: Ducks, Optimism, Quacks, Bluebird

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Hard Work, Hey, Wells, Bluebird

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

- Thomas Roberts

topic: Summer, Spring, Sound, Bluebird, Confiding

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Morning, Sunset, Sublime, Bluebird, Daffodil

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2189, Delphi Classics

topic: Summer, Winter, Today, Bluebird

The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

- John Burroughs

topic: Cheer, Color, Bird, Bluebird

Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

- L. Frank Baum

source: "Fictional character: Dorothy". "The Wizard of Oz", www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

topic: Rainbow, Bird, Littles, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebird

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

- Gary Larson

source: Gary Larson (1988). “The far side gallery 3”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Depression, Long, Chickens, Bluebird

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

- Ella Fitzgerald

source: Song: Blue Skies

topic: Blue, Sky, Blue Sky, Bluebird

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Men, Lists, Towns, Bluebird, Single Relationship

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

topic: Nature, Morning, Purple, Irises, Bluebird

Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.

- Neltje Blanchan

topic: Summer, Bye, Long, Bluebird, Mistletoe

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

- Edmund Clarence Stedman

topic: Song, Spring, Color, Bluebird

The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

- Arthur Cleveland Bent

source: Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

topic: Eye, Blue, Names, Bluebird, Admiring

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

- Kate Atkinson

source: Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

topic: Clouds, Sky, Snow, Bluebird

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

- Judy Garland

source: Song: Over the Rainbow {from The Wizard of Oz}, Album: Spotlight on Judy Garland (Great Ladies Of Song)

topic: Rainbow, Bird, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebird, Wizard Of Oz Wizard

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

source: Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

topic: Running, Hands, Color, Bluebird

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

- Joseph McCarthy

topic: Rainbow, Waiting, Littles, Bluebird, Chasing Rainbows

Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.

- Neltje Blanchan

topic: Song, Spring, Home, Bluebird, Minstrels

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Artist, Unique, Two, Bluebird

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

- Sigurd F. Olson

source: Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Summer, Autumn, Wind, Bluebird, Indian Summer

Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Running, Cutting, Rocks, Bluebird, Aspens

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

- Christopher Cross

topic: Artist, Nashville, Community, Bluebird

For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!

- John Burroughs

source: Neltje Blanchan, John Burroughs (2016). “Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

topic: Summer, Country, Spring, Bluebird

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

- Terry Kay

topic: Grieving, Wings, Yellow, Bluebird, Blackbirds

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

- John Townsend Trowbridge

source: John Townsend Trowbridge (1869). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.115

topic: Bird, Aviation, Bluebird

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

topic: Song, Spring, Robins, Bluebird, Blackbirds