When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that? – Kim Young-ha
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. – Michel de Montaigne
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? – Jeremy Rifkin
I’m not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it’s really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory. – Kirk Cameron
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. – Rodney Dangerfield
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility – a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. – Richard Jefferies
The birds never needed passports… We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn’t, really. The birds were very much the symbol of… free movement for me. – Peter Sis
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Wilson Lynd
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. – Quentin Blake
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds. – Saadi
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
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. – Phillip E. Johnson
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. – Rachel Ward
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? – Robert Wilson
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. – Robert Herrick The Argument of his Book
I carve stone. I’ve got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. – Peter Weir
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
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. – Tom Waits
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. – William Lyon Phelps
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. – Sergei Eisenstein
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets – tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched. – Sylvia Plath