birds

Found 8 thoughts of birds

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou

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.

Saskya Pandita

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Lynd