Quotes about Birds

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white — we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease
If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a v — Mehmet Murat ildan
If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
And I've been thinking: if the human race manages to destroy itself, as it often seems to want to do, or if some great d — David Almond, My Name Is Mina
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end — George Saunders
'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at — Debbie Blue, Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the se — Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree
There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would — Brian Doyle, Mink River
It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after — Ann Wroe, Orpheus: The Song of Life
...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the comin — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it's not worth saying, — E.E.D. Horton, Conversations With A Pigeon
You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the inconvenience in your — conversations with a pigeon
I live there...where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit's a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere — Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red st — Mike Bond, Killing Maine
I can hear birds singing but they don't sound at all like the birds I knew. These are mocking and possessed. I imagine t — Celia McMahon, Skye
Birds are the eyes of Heaven. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You bad birds,But God shall not punish you, youShall be with us in heaven, though lessConscious of your happiness, perha — John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can — Robert Bly, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems
The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty. — Truth Devour, Wantin