662 Quotes About Birds

The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird symbolizes the strength and freedom of America. But as latter-day citizens we shall fail our trust if we permit the eagle to disappear.

An awning marked the site; it appeared to be the farthest one in the cemetery. As they proceeded there, black wings thudded in sudden unison, and a flock of birds flew up as they might from a ploughed field, still shaped like it, like an old map that still served new territory, and wrinkled away in the air.

I saw two birds outside my windowAs my cheek met a pillowWhen the bird left the other tooI couldn’t help but think of you

Uncertainty lingered, but the more she thought about it, the less likely it seemed the boy meant harm. It didn't fit that anyone who liked birds would be mean.

The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them.

for a poemNeeds multitude, multitudes of thoughts, all fierce, all flesh-eaters, musically clamorousBright hawks that hover and dart headlong, and ungainlyGray hungers fledged with desire of transgression, salt slimed beaks, from the sharpRock-shores of the world and the secret waters.

He watched their flight; bird after bird: a dark flash, a swerve, a flutter of wings. He tried to count them before all their darting quivering bodies passed: six, ten, eleven: and wondered were they odd or even in number. Twelve, thirteen: for two came wheeling down from the upper sky. They were flying high and low but ever round and round in straight and curving lines and ever flying from left to right, circling about a temple of air.

Why can't we fly like birds in the sky?Because we are like trees in a forest. We stand and take root.But dad, I don't want to stay in one place.I want to fly.

This Bird, in my opinion, is a pretty, sweet, dapper songster, being of a nature cheerful; as he is pleasant to the ear, so he is to the eye; and when he sings cocks up his tail, and throws out his notes with so much alacrity and pleasure that I know not any bird of its bigness more delights the sense of hearing.