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Below is a compilation of different warm-blooded and high flying quotes about birds that will surely take you on an interesting flight.Ā
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63+ Quotes About Birds For Breaking Free!
1. “A bird is joy incarnate.” – Myrtle Reed
2. “Wherever there are birds, there is hope.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
3. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali
4. “I work as often as I want and yet Iām free as a bird.” – Ethel Merman
5. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” – Dejan Stojanovic
6. “We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry.” – John Webster
7. “Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind.” – Suzanne Collins
8. “The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.” – Carly Simon
9. “Birds are the first and the greatest performers.” – Olivier Messiaen
10. “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” – Bob Dylan
11. “Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” – Robert Henri
12. “Birds born in cages think that flying is an illness.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky
13. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake
14. “He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.” – Wendell Berry
15. “If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.” – John Burroughs
16. “Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing, it canāt fly.” – Dan Pena
17. “The biggest favor you can do to yourself is fly freely like birds.” – Kuldeep Gera
18. “A bird in the hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.” – Bret Harte
19. “The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.” – Rabindranath Tagore
20. “The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
21. “The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.” – John Berry
22. “Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.” _ Roger Tory Peterson
23. “If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.” – Nikita Khrushchev
24. “In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” – Robert Lynd
25. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
26. “Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.” – Louis de Bernieres
27. “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Willie Nelson
28. “Itās like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.” – Peggy Whitson
29. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
30. “In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” – Robert Wilson Lynd
31. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
32. “I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.” – Richard Peck
33. “Hear how the birds, on every blooming spray, With joyous music wake the dawning day.” – Alexander Pope
34. “Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds, but it is also the story of jackals and hounds.” – M.F. Moonzajer
35. “A bird is three things: Feathers, flight and song, And feathers are the least of these.” – Marjorie Allen Seiffert
36. “Iād rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” – E.E. Cummings
37. “Iām like a bird, I only fly away. I donāt know where my soul is. I donāt know where my home is.” – Nelly Furtado
38. “Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive.” – Marty Rubin
39. “When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.” – Amit Ray
40. “From birds, she learned how to sing, from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.” – Salman Rushdie
41. “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.” – Roger Tory Peterson
42. “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” – Haruki Murakami
43. “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – J.M. Barrie
44. “The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.” – Sun Tzu
45. “You canāt be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” – Hal Borland
46. “Bird up above see what he’s got. The freedom to fly and the freedom to not. De dumb, that’s a fine kind o’ freedom.” – Harold Arlen
47. “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
48. “Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.” – Douglas Coupland
49. “Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
50. “Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.” – Lilian Jackson Braun
51. “The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.” – James Allen
52. “Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” – Victor Hugo
53. “Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”- Roger Tory Peterson
54. “The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” – Aesop
55. “Those little nimbleĀ musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.” – Izaak Walton
56. “The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.” – Leonardo da Vinci
57. “The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly.” – Israelmore Ayivor
58. “Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.” – David Attenborough
59. “Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.” – David Attenborough
60. “The bird is an inspiring animal that symbolizes freedom and spiritual growth to some people. Some considerĀ birds as divine messengers. Those whose lives have been enriched by birds have said that God can perform aĀ miracle through them.” – Whitney Hopler
61. “The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.” – Saint John of the Cross
62. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” – Stephen King