Blue Jays Quotes:

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

- Harper Lee

topic: Blue, Want, Ems, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

- James Wright

source: James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Blue, Laughing, Tree, Pine Trees, Blue Jays

...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves...

- Tom Franklin

topic: Dog, Squirrels, Blue, Armadillos, Blue Jays

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

- Harper Lee

topic: Gun, Blue, Daddy, Blue Jays, Tin Cans

[Red Sox and Blue Jays] formula's been they have such durability in the bullpen.

- Joe Maddon

source: Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

topic: Durability, Blue Jays

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Heart, Ice, Sky, Biking, Blue Sky

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

- Ken Jennings

topic: Writing, Blue, Games, Best Wishes, Blue Jays

On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night.

- Bobby Bragan

topic: Baseball, Home, Night, Lone Ranger, Blue Jays