And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help".
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
Your thoughts are as free as any bird
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
London is a roost for every bird.
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.
The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.
That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit. " Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts. "