A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
- Terri Guillemets
A forest bird never wants a cage.
- Henrik Ibsen
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged
- Chinese Proverbs
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds
- Aesop
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- J.G. Holland
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Deval
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
- Bret Harte
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
- William Henry Hudson
God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
- Turkish Proverb
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
- George Mercer Dawson
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
- Wilbur Wright
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose F. Kennedy
Birds of a feather will gather together.
- Robert Burton
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come
- Chinese Proverbs
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air
- Rabindranath Tagore
Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.
- George W. Bush
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
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
- E. E. Cummings
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
- Alma Gluck
