Singing Birds Quotes:

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

- Lois Lowry

source: Lois Lowry (1983). “Taking Care of Terrific”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Heart, Bird, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Tree

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

- Ralph Hodgson

source: Ralph Hodgson (2004). “The Last Blackbird and Other Poems by Ralph Hodgson”

topic: Sweet, Eye, People, Open Eyes, Singing Birds

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

- Amit Ray

topic: Compassion, Bird, Darkness, Singing Birds

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Bird, Singing, Thee, Summer And Winter, Nature Love

In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Happiness, Beautiful, Morning, Walking Barefoot, Barefoot

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Adversity, Bird, Singing, Joy Of Living, Overcoming Hardship

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit...

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Heart, Apples, Water, Peacock, Apple Trees

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

- Maud Lindsay

source: Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.64, Heart of Dixie Publishing

topic: Flower, Writing, Bird, Singing Birds

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Spring, Sunshine, Bird, Singing Birds

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

- Black Elk

topic: Depression, Roots, Bird, Depression Inspirational, Native American Proverbs

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Spring, Flower, Rain, Spring Day, Spring Flowers

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

- Eric Berne

source: ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

topic: Nature, Boys, Equality, Birds Wings, Bird Watching

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Summer, Spring, Fall, Fruit Trees, Birds Chirping

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

topic: Lying, Flower, Men, Singing Birds

Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Children, Fun, Adversity, Singing Birds

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

topic: Self, Bird, Tree, Wildflowers, Deaf And Blind

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.

- George Saunders

source: George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

topic: Song, Blessed, Fall, Beaks, Descent

The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back. Within the city's bounds the time of flowers Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day, Such as full often, for a few bright hours, Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May, Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom- And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.

- William C. Bryant

source: William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

topic: Country, Spring, Flower, Sunny Day, Foliage