These bird quotes will inspire you. The bird is a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bird quotes, bird sayings, and bird proverbs.
Famous Bird Quotes
- “The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.” ~ Carly Simon
- “Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” ~ David Attenborough
- “May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living” ~ e. e. cummings
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“Wherever there are birds, there is hope.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.” ~ Richard Peck
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“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
- “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” ~ Lois Lowry
- “Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.” ~ Charlie Chaplin , Bird quotes about life
- “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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“If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.” ~ John Burroughs
- “I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.'” ~ Hafez
- “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.” ~ Henry David Thoreau , Bird quotes lover
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“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ~ Robert Wilson Lynd
- “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “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
- “A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.” ~ Truman Capote
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“Fly! There’s a lot of sky out there for brave birds.” ~ Matthew Quick
- “I woke up this morning,
Smiled at the rising sun,
Three little birds,
Sat on my doorstep,
Singing sweet songs” ~ Bob Marley - “Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~ Salvador Dali
- “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” ~ Harun Yahya
- “Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” ~ Robert Henri , Flying bird quotes
- “You’ll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.” ~ Cynthia Lewis
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“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.” ~ Jacques Deval
- “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
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“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “Everybody loves birdsong. It’s a human need… the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure” ~ Simon Barnes
- “Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can’t I?” ~ Judy Garland
- “The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“Love is a bird… she needs to fly.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
- “Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.” ~ Max Lucado
- “A bird is joy incarnate.” ~ Myrtle Reed
- “It’s probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.” ~ Olivier Messiaen
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“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” ~ J. G. Holland
- “A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “I sometimes 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
- “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.” ~ Aesop
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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” ~ Langston Hughes
- “Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.” ~ Louis de Bernieres
- “Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety – if we want to… And surely, we should.” ~ David Attenborough
- “Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.” ~ Eleanor Farjeon -
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” ~ Charles Lindbergh
- “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.” ~ Dixon Lanier Merritt - “That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow’s lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.” ~ Martin Luther
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“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!” ~ John Milton
- “Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.” ~ Carol P. Christ
- “I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.” ~ Pete Hamill
- “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.” ~ Roger Tory Peterson
- “I know why the caged bird sings.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” ~ Bernard Meltzer
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“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.” ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.” ~ Margaret Craven
Bird the young of a feathered vertebrate.
