(691 quotes found)
“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
“The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air”
Rabindranath Tagore
“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
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“It is the beautiful bird which gets caged”
Chinese Proverbs
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…”
Anais Nin
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;Sweet lovers love the spring.”
William Shakespeare
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
William Blake
“My heart is like a singing bird.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings”