Bird Quotes

“Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."
The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz

“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)

Whispering to myself
With every step I take,
Trying out names, for I know
There is something yet to be called …..

I know it, something up ahead
Just around the bend
Or over the rise –
A bird taking to the sky
From the edge of a jagged cliff –
A bird floating outwards
In silence ……. A silence
Waiting for a footstep
To crunch on stones,
For a voice to fling upward
Through sharp sunlight
With a name…… calling
Before the bird could call
Before the bird called.

Oh the bird was there alright
And sure it took flight
When it heard me approach
But it broke my heart
With a mighty croak!

So I’m sitting here playing
With a purple flower
Slender stem, no leaves
Purple fizz –

And it’s quiet again.
I am still
I am nothing
And the hill
Is a long, long slope
Down, down, down to the sea
Far below.

I could roll
I could run
I could scream
But I am nothing.

A cool wind blows
And the light is naked and nameless
And the rocks are faces of angels
And the bird in the sky wheels
And cries to forget the earth
And its ancient bones –
Oh, sensual pain –
Wings…. Wings…. Wings,
Singing wings.

If only I could begin
To describe the emptiness
Which fills me to the brim
With new breath

I might almost lose my name
And take instead a feather for my soul.”
― Jay Woodman

“The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.”
― Belinda Taylor on "Soul"

“When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

“There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, what and how much you can eat and drink, and how to purchase those. They will strip you of your religion, race, gender, national origin, age, color, creed, views and power, and have control of the population. They will set in a new world order, and put you in the back of the line, marked and branded. Everything before will be erased, and the new will be manipulated. And what you believe most, can only be kept secret, for all must fall in line of their govern. Anything outside will be abolished. Even death, will be sought, but restrained. They will execute complete and total control over everything, and be sole owners of your soul. The light, that once guided will go dim, and liberty will be like an unwilled bird, suppressed in the cage of your ribs; wings cut off.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You're a freaking pschopath," I said, but he only chuckled.
"I don't expect you to understand, little bird," He turned toward me fully, fingering his blade and smiling. "I expect you only to sing. Sing for me, sing for Kanin, and make it a glorious song”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.”
― Katherine Catmull, Summer and Bird

“How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.”
― René Char, Selected Poems

“When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don't leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best; you were created to use every gift in you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“What is the price of freedom! I'm not talking about the physical restraining kind, but the spiritual, mental, emotional kind! If we glance at a tiny bird, it represents the ultimate freedom, the ability to fly, to rise above all, to look down on earth while getting tickled by clouds of cotton candy. But the price of this bird's freedom is living off scrapes of food & sippes of water!
I guess the price of freedom is all about living in content. If u need to spread ur wings wide and fly off into the horizon, you need to learn that what you already have can certainly set you FREE!”
― Larissa Qat

“Era uma vez um pássaro. Adornado com um par de asas perfeitas e plumas reluzentes, coloridas e maravilhosas. Enfim, um animal feito para voar livre e solto no céu, e alegrar quem o observasse.
Um dia, uma mulher viu o pássaro e apaixonou-se por ele. Ficou a olhar o seu voo com a boca aberta de espanto, o coração batendo mais rapidamente, os olhos brilhando de emoção. Convidou-o para voar com ela, e os dois viajaram pelo céu em completa harmonia. Ela admirava, venerava, celebrava o pássaro.

Mas então pensou: talvez ele queira conhecer algumas montanhas distantes! E a mulher sentiu medo. Medo de nunca mais sentir aquilo com outro pássaro. E sentiu inveja, inveja da capacidade de voar do pássaro.

E sentiu-se sozinha.
E pensou: “vou montar uma armadilha. Da próxima vez que o pássaro surgir, ele não partirá mais.”

O pássaro, que também estava apaixonado, voltou no dia seguinte, caiu na armadilha, e foi preso na gaiola.

Todos os dias ela olhava o pássaro. Ali estava o objecto da sua paixão, e ela mostrava-o ás suas amigas, que comentavam: “Mas tu és uma pessoa que tem tudo.” Entretanto, uma estranha transformação começou a processar-se: como tinha o pássaro, e já não precisava de o conquistar, foi perdendo o interesse. O pássaro sem puder voar e exprimir o sentido da sua vida, foi definhando, perdendo o brilho, ficou feio – e a mulher já não lhe prestava atenção, apenas prestava atenção á maneira como o alimentava e como cuidava da sua gaiola.

Um belo dia o pássaro morreu. Ela ficou profundamente triste, e passava a vida a pensar nele. Mas não se lembrava da gaiola, recordava apenas o dia em que o vira pela primeira vez, voando contente entre as nuvens.
Se ela se observasse a si mesma, descobriria que aquilo que a emocionava tanto no pássaro era a sua liberdade, a energia das asas em movimento, não o seu corpo físico.
Sem o pássaro a sua vida também perdeu o sentido, e a morte veio bater á sua porta. “Por que vieste?” perguntou á morte. “Para que possas voar de novo com ele nos céus”, respondeu a morte. “Se o tivesses deixado partir e voltar sempre, amá-lo-ias e admirá-lo-ias ainda mais; porém, agora precisas de mim para puderes encontrá-lo de novo.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.”
― Katherine Catmull, Summer and Bird

“I am lost in your eyes like a broken wings bird.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“I won't tell yo anything," I choked out. "So you might as well kill me now."
"Everyone has a limit, little bird." He placed the flat of a blade against my cheek, the edges biting into my skin, I wanted to close my eyes, but I kept them open, glaring at Sarren defiantly, though my jaw hurt from clenching it so hard. "Let's if we can find yours.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Way is, where way goes. As a wind that blows and the bird that soars, into the open blue, where it neither knows when do is due.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images.

("The Women Of The Woods")”
― A. Merritt, Masters of Horror

“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of him did. The pissed off part. Let that roll around in your brain for a while.”
Jamie considered this. “No, Eddie. The hurt part, that’s what did it.”
The crow shrieked again. It seemed louder, and that meant it was closer. Or maybe it was another crow, maybe several. Jamie and Eddie looked toward the sky, listening to the screams. Jamie spoke first.
“We can’t let it happen again. We may be the only ones who know the truth about what Socrates can do.”
“That thought probably has occurred to Socrates too.”
― Ken Goldman, Of A Feather

“Life is like the flappy bird game. There's no pause nor another chance to live after dying and there could be endless obstacles. After all, it is just a matter of patience and perseverance to get a higher score.”
― Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

“Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head; but you can prevent it from making a nest on your head!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do”
― Katherine Catmull, Summer and Bird