Birds

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke, 1852 - 1933

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie James Herbert Blake, 1883 - 1983

The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
- William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890 - 1995

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, 1802 - 1885

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than theway in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it wasbefore.
- Robert Lynd

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese Proverb

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able tosing like a bird.
- Jewish Proverb

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does notgrasp.
- John Berry

The early bird gets the worm.
- American Proverb

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up thePhoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
- Anne Baxter

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- C. ArchieDanielson

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke;The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wiseold bird?
- Edward Hersey Richards

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she mayhop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly withthem to heaven.
- Francis Beaumont

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
- P. D. James

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
- Spiro T. Agnew