bird Quotes

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

“I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.”

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

“I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.”

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”