We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can't I ?'

Orville Wright

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

Mitchell Burgess

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

John Burroughs

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

Belva Plain

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

Nat Burton

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

Mitchell Burgess

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Rose F. Kennedy

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 Lynd

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.

Lewis Carroll

My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow.

Don Williams, Jr.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.

Danish Proverb

There's always oddities that you find. Birds can fly anywhere they want to.

Brian Shema

This is most certainly not the bird flu. This is a common illness in birds.

Jennifer Pflugfelder

Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can't I.

Lyman Frank Baum

Pardon the pun, but you really do get a bird's eye view from up there.

Judy Walker

They're both like birds halfway out of the nest.

Qin Ma

It swells up if (birds) eat too much and will damage their stomach. That can be a problem.

Francis Moore

We have some people who get pretty upset when something happens to birds.

David Hoover

It has long been known from Asia that cats can be infected if they eat infected birds.

Thomas Mettenleiter

We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.

Anees Ahmed

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

We've found that it's very effective for most of the birds.

Carol West

They fly away, like birds.

Alexander Bunegin

It's purely precautionary. I always said that if bird flu got as far as Germany, I would put the birds inside.

Derrick Coyle

Otherwise we might have birds all over the place.

Paul Osborne

We will start culling the birds.

Uttam Khobragade

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Morrie Schwartz

We're hoping some of our birds will just show up.

Dan Maloney

These birds would have been after the most vulnerable members of the group.

Dr Lee Berger

This is the time when you get the most influx of birds.

Nancy Corona

These were very aggressive birds.

Richard Hart

Sure enough, birds were dying.

William Karesh

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

Mark Shieldcastle

There's not a lot of open habitat left where birds can be left alone and enjoyed.

Julie Oakes

Birds die all the time for any number of reasons.

Terence Mcelroy

Any time you see this, you get an initial report of oiled birds alive.

Terry Harvey

It's one of the most endangered birds in the world.

Dan Maloney

Just to hear birds. Refreshing.

Tia Styles

I've never met a vulture I didn't like, and they're interesting birds.

Jacques Nuzzo

In case there's some boo birds, so they didn't see me.

Brad May

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

Jim Knight

Up to 10km away, all the birds have been killed.

Vijay Kumar

Our society nowadays is all about killing two birds with one stone.

Randal Williams

Most birds that die in incidents such as this one never reach the shore.

Vilju Lilleleht

It's basically an experiment in how many birds could be killed.

Walt Kittelberger

There is no time for niceties. The birds have to be killed as fast as possible.

Bijay Kumar

A few more birds could be left, but we will kill them off by noon today.

Bijay Kumar

Sadly, many of these birds likely perish.

Phil Taylor

It's all moot at this point; the bird's here.

John Fitzpatrick

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Turkish proverb

Our emphasis is, you have to get it at the source, and the source is birds.

Andrea Morgan

Fish swim, birds fly, and people feel.

Dr. Haim Ginott

But that's an administrative boundary. The birds don't always know where that line is, and there's some crossover.

Jim Hansen

So far we have killed 500,000 birds. In some of these areas we have killed 50 percent of all birds and in others only 30 percent.

Tahseen Nameq

Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time.

Anees Ahmed

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Jon Karkow

They're what I call the ooh-ah birds because they're just so spectacular.

Ted Gilman

I panicked. It hurts because these were pure-bred birds.

Gabrielle Josserand

Even if you have lots of mosquitoes, you might not have enough birds.

Roger Nasci

There's something about birds that I can't do, so it always held a mystery for me seeing them fly, seeing them hunt.

Bobby Winter

If the birds weren't gone in 30 days, I didn't get paid.

Jim Soules

Listen, it's so screwed up. There are no birds. Nothing. No food for them.

Jerry Amato

I see all the birds are flown.

King Charles I

Motion carries and Mr. Bird's here for another six years.

David Wolfe

We may get some interaction with wild birds (from Asia) that go up to Alaska and our birds that go up to Alaska.

Mark Drew

I hear a lot of birds out there, and you could see some big jack rabbits, too.

Melanie Florez

It's just a lot more certain. It's a bird in the hand, and better than two birds in the bush.

Debbie Wang

They're learning about the hazards of birds who migrate.

Diane Digiacomo

If we don't find some more birds fast, our goose is cooked.

Ewan Mcgregor

We look at the sky, we watch the birds, we don't talk about it.

Earle Caldwell