(686 quotes found)
“Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.”
Cole Porter
“London is a roost for every bird.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.”
Ronald Reagan
“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”
William Maxwell
“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.”
Wilbur Wright
“Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
Elizabeth Goudge
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!”
Thomas Hood
“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
James Whitcomb Riley
“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”
Rebecca West
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