Bird Buddies

Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb

I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau

Wishing to be a bird so you can Fly Away. - Unknown

He who has no falcon must hunt with an owl. - Danish Proverb

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living - e e cummings

With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite. - Mehmet M Ildan

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use. - Karla Souza

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart. - Edward Lear

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

You can't fly with the owls by night and expect to keep up with the eagles during the day. - Unknown

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. - Robbie Coltrane

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. - Josh Fox

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound
Where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound - Munia Khan

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious. - Mehmet Murat ildan

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies. - Alfred Tennyson

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. - Isabel Gillies

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo