Bird Flying Quotes:

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hunting, Bird, Flying, Duck Hunting, Bird Flying

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

- John James Audubon

topic: Distance, Gun, Bird, Bird Flying

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

- P. L. Travers

topic: Bird, Flying, Stories, Bird Flying

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

- James M. Barrie

source: "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Wings, Birds Wings, Wings To Fly

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

- William Blake

topic: Love, Motivational, Cute, Importunate, Birds Wings

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

- Nina Simone

topic: Inspirational, Sky, Feel Good, Old World, Bird Flying

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

topic: Funny, Witty, Fear, Learn To Fly, Galaxy

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

source: "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart, Inspirational Dream, Columnists

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Bird, Flying, Spiritual Wisdom, Bird Flying

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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Life, Change, Wisdom, Learn To Fly, Jolly

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.

- Sakya Pandita

topic: Mean, Talking, Bird, Talkative, Parrots

Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.

- Chogyam Trungpa

source: "The Path of Individual Liberation (volume 1): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One".

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Life Changing, Study Life, Gallantry

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

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

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

- Seth Godin

topic: Hands, People, Bird, Bird Flying

There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.

- Mary Oliver

source: Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

topic: Morning, Mean, Night, Fly Away, Bird Flying

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

- George A. Romero

topic: Fall, People, Bird, Bird Flying

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Eggs, Ordinary, Goes On, Learn To Fly, Why Change

There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes.

- Neil Young

source: Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.23, Hal Leonard Corporation

topic: Dream, Stars, Memories, Ontario, Big Bird

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

- Barbara Corcoran

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Mar 27, 2014

topic: Bird, Flying, Tiny, Bird Flying

Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

- Pelagius

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Animal, Bird Flying

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

topic: Mean, Reflection, Water, Blocked, Bird Flying

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

- Reed Hastings

topic: Entrepreneur, Stupidity, Bird, Bird Flying

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

- Robert James Waller

topic: Moving, Ignorance, Years, County, Prairie

Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Blessed, Fall, Kissing, Bird Flying

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Bird, Flying, Maps, Overhead, Bird Flying

Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred, Spending Your Time, Bird Flying

Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.

- Rajneesh

topic: Lying, Sky, Meditation, Lying Down, Bird Flying