185 Bird Quotes for You to Enjoy

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside. James Stephens

Bird Rose Inside Pot Wing Outside Like Perfume Without Gold

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad. Jean-Marc Vallee

Bird Bad He Like Sings Scott Adam

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference. Jeff Vandermeer

Food Day Fruit Every Day Bird Every Other Birds Out No Idea Both Pointless Put Idea Long-Term Know Makes Passing Up Mammals Get Any Difference Moment Fill

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. Jimmy Connors

Son Bird Montana Wayne Okay Joe Give Tennis Football Instance Him Stick Hockey Gretzky Dad Her Larry Basketball

In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives. Jimmy Gomez

Me Women People Events Bird Self-Defense Tree State Everything Neighborhood About Struggles Instead Come Learned How Affected Clinics Years Going Legislative Legislator Where Decisions Them Asking Lives Dozens Four

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. Joan Fontaine

Marriage Bird Institution Dead

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter. Joe Carnahan

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. Joe Pantoliano

School Bird Am Years Being Acting Acting School Twelve

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art. John Burnside

Art Bird Illustration Sadly Always Been

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion. John Burroughs

Great Wise Natural Bird Free Other Danger Immunity Nest Architect Gives Both Color Moss Perhaps Look Makes Builds Rocks Accretion Person Any Where Which Modest Use Growth Suit

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. John Burroughs

Art Bird Secret Bits Kind Bizarre Nest Weaving Seem Betrayed Give Structure Both Conceal Material Traditions Which Then Showy Now Now And Then Away Violate Position

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer. John Hench

Music Bird Will Jazz Would Restaurant Something Only Come Like Supposed Another Answer Tapes Any Happened Little Thing Start

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. John James Audubon

Bird Long Extraordinary Considered Though More Wings Most Powers Been Than Golden Which Estimation Little Flight Eagle Ample Universally

I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that's not a chicken. I can't remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty. John Legend

Food Remember Bird Hong Kong Ate Some Pretty Brown Kong Chicken Very Authentic Green Egg Tasty Chinese Chinese Food Funky

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? John Lewis

Dog Bird Hunter Gets Who

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. Julia Cameron

Writing Bird Will Hung Enticing Windows About Outside New House Around Different Deck Room Many Species Imagine

James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave. Justin Cartwright

Life Good Bird Real Life Good Lord Lies John John Brown Brown Lord Real His James Century Who Based Grave Set

I saw someone the other day with yellow on their eyelids, and it looked so fresh. But I thought if I did that I'd look like a clown. So I went and I bought some yellow eye shadow from M.A.C. and I noticed that when you mix it with water it works better. So I tried it, and I looked like Big Bird. I will never do that again. Kelly Rowland

Day You Water Better Bird Will Thought Big Clown Other Saw Eye Tried Some Shadow Someone Never Bought Like Look Looked Fresh Mix Yellow Did Again Noticed Works

I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden. Kenny Baker

Man Business Garden Bird Smallest Got Show Show Business Britain

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies. Kyle Dunnigan

You Animal Gift Bird Somebody Think Worst Give Put Cage Until Because Dies Flight Present Watch

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. Lawrence Hargrave

You Bird Will Face Speedily Side Wave Direct Angles Rising Attention Course Always Surface Regard Moving Really Noticed Your Apparently Nearly Right Position

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