Bird Quotes

‘I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.’ – William Blake

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

‘Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.’ – Salvador Dali

‘Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.’ – Rumi

‘I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.’ – Jay Inslee

‘Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.’ – Dan Pena

‘The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘A forest bird never wants a cage.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘The early bird gets the worm. The early worm… gets eaten.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine

‘Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?’ – David Attenborough

‘If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.’ – Douglas Adams

‘A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.’ – Suzy Kassem

‘God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I’d love to be a bird so that I could fly.’ – Joy Fielding

‘The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘My heart is like a singing bird.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.’ – James Allen

‘No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.’ – John Burroughs

‘Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.’ – Ivan Turgenev

‘Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.’ – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

‘It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.’ – Eric Jerome Dickey

‘India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.’ – Myron Scholes

‘When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.’ – James Whitcomb Riley

‘The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.’ – Anne Baxter

‘I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.’ – Ashley Cole

‘The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.’ – Jeremy Paxman

‘The early bird catches the worm.’ – William Camden

‘For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.’ – Tommy Douglas

‘Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.’ – George Eliot

‘Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.’ – Francis Beaumont

‘A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.’ – Coco Chanel

‘Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.’ – Nikita Khrushchev

‘Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.’ – Ivan Pavlov

‘Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.’ – Walter Benjamin

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

‘A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.’ – Anais Nin

‘You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.’ – Hal Borland

‘I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.’ – Pete Hamill

‘When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.’ – William John Wills

‘The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.’ – John James Audubon

‘I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.’ – George Washington Carver

‘In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.’ – Alan Perlis

‘Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.’ – Bret Harte

‘When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird? – Boyle Roche’ – Boyle Roche

‘Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?’ – John L. Lewis

‘I’m sort of a strange bird.’ – Ann Bancroft

‘I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.’ – Olivier Messiaen

‘Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!’ – Emily Dickinson

‘I think ‘The Color of Money’ was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did ‘Bird,’ it was more solidified.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘I’m an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.’ – Andrew Motion

‘I’m not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.’ – Gordon Lightfoot

‘People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘If I’m going to be a caged bird, I’ll sing the best song I can.’ – Wes Craven

‘When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.’ – Norman MacCaig

‘London is a roost for every bird.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.’ – Jacques Pepin

‘Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.’ – Klaus Kinski

‘It was okay for Wayne Gretzky’s dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana’s dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird’s dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn’t okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.’ – Jimmy Connors

‘Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that’s what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that’s part of your responsibility, and you learn that’s what makes it exciting. That’s what makes it fun!’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.’ – James D. Watson

‘As a memorial, I’d like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I’d just like it to say: ‘Maeve Binchy, storyteller’ and people could look at the name and remember that they’d seen it somewhere else.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.’ – Reed Hastings

‘I wrote the script to ‘Lady Bird,’ and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home – like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who’s about to leave it.’ – Greta Gerwig

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

‘My father always said, ‘Malala will be free as a bird.” – Malala Yousafzai

‘We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.’ – Vladimir Zhirinovsky

‘Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.’ – Quincy Jones

‘Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.’ – Jose Marti

‘I have a worm’s eye view and a bird’s eye view simultaneously and it’s immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.’ – Richard Eyre

‘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

‘History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.’ – Al Purdy

‘Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I’d still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I’ve gotten to really love acting. And I’ve gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it’s like playing my kid. I can’t imagine deliberately stopping.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.’ – James M. Barrie

‘Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.’ – John Lewis

‘I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn’t love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I’ve seen squirrels, I’ve seen a bird, and I’ve seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I’ve learned to say: ‘You know what? I am a beautiful black woman’.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into the woods for hours. I’d bring a clipboard and think that I was doing some work out there, following the trails of raccoons or collecting bird feathers.’ – Tig Notaro

‘There’s a little pond near my house, and I see two swans there all the time who are obviously in love. But they look like the same bird, so I don’t know if they’re male or female, but they’re definitely in love.’ – Noel Fielding

‘For ‘Conan,’ I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.’ – Jason Momoa

‘If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it’ll die because they don’t go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you’ll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you’ll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.’ – Ted Yoho

‘I don’t see things from a worm’s perspective but a bird’s perspective. I smile at problems.’ – Manisha Koirala

‘I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.’ – Barbara Windsor

‘The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.’ – William Blake

‘Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.’ – Sharon Tate

‘The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation… God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘One of the great things about stargazing is that it’s immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘A seed depends on a whole host of factors to grow – from the fertility of the soil to the right mix of rain and sun to not being eaten by a passing bird. The same goes for an idea. For an idea to really take hold, other factors come into play, from timing to the emerging technology that makes it possible.’ – Taavet Hinrikus

‘It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.’ – Jim Henson

‘I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.’ – Colonel Sanders

‘Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.’ – Germaine Greer

‘Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.’ – John Burnside

‘Roblox is less a game than a 3-D social platform where you and your friends can pretend to be in different places. You can pretend to be in a fashion show or that you’re trying to survive in a tornado or that you want to go work in a pizza restaurant, or that you’re a bird and survive by catching insects.’ – David Baszucki

‘Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.’ – Joan Fontaine

‘I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re from the movie ‘Big Daddy,” and I had bird poop all over me.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird’s throat; Since Eden’s freshness and man’s fall No rose has been original.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

‘For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘I learned my color in Europe. I’ve always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.’ – Ellsworth Kelly

‘The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.’ – William Christopher Handy

‘What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? – Pedro Calderon de la Barca’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister’s, not like my son’s – a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it’s frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘I’m a free bird and I follow my own rules.’ – Shriya Saran

‘My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There’s a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.’ – Florence Welch

‘The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.’ – Victor Hugo

‘If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.’ – Nikita Khrushchev

‘I think it’s really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they’re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.’ – Vinnie Jones

‘I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘My father used to call me ‘bird bones’ and, well, the name fits.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady – Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.’ – Spiro T. Agnew

‘World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration – but also a reminder that those patterns, and ecosystems worldwide, are threatened by climate change.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.’ – John Burroughs

‘Here’s the deal: You can’t go in with the intent that, ‘All right, we’re gonna write another ‘Free Bird’ or ‘What’s Your Name.” You can’t think about it in those terms, because you’ll never outdo your history.’ – Rickey Medlocke

‘In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus’ body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.’ – Max Heindel

‘I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.’ – Trevor Dunn

‘I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can’t do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.’ – Kurt Braunohler

‘This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.’ – John Hench

‘In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.’ – Paula Deen

‘My writing often contains souvenirs of the day – a song I heard, a bird I saw – which I then put into the novel.’ – Amy Tan

‘I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘The prospect of coaching two of the game’s most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.’ – Anne Donovan

‘I’m a morning bird. I love getting up before it’s light out if it’s possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I’m an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!’ – John Burroughs

‘I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.’ – Orson Bean

‘In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.’ – Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that’s not a chicken. I can’t remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty.’ – John Legend

‘It’s like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.’ – Carl Reiner

‘He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.’ – Herbert Gold

‘Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.’ – Joseph Wood Krutch

‘I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.’ – John Coltrane

‘When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.’ – Marv Levy

‘People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.’ – Byron Dorgan

‘Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.’ – John Murray

‘I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though.’ – Roger Tory Peterson

‘I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.’ – Roger Tory Peterson

‘I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You’re just as free as a bird!’ – Bettie Page

‘When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me ‘Chick’ because I looked like Tweety Bird.’ – Nicky Hilton

‘I don’t, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.’ – Brian Lamb

‘I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.’ – Richie Sambora

‘In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it’s the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what’s available, what somebody happens to play for you.’ – Gerry Mulligan

‘Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.’ – Peter R. Grant

‘Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.’ – Joe Pantoliano

‘I’d like to think that the nature of the two teams – Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing – was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave’s course, but really diagonal to it.’ – Lawrence Hargrave

‘The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.’ – Lawrence Hargrave

‘These things don’t just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.’ – Patrick Macnee

‘I work as often as I want and yet I’m free as a bird.’ – Ethel Merman

‘I’m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I’m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.’ – Jimmy Piersall

‘I’ve known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.’ – Tiffeny Milbrett

‘A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.’ – Patrick MacGill

‘And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it’s really refreshing.’ – Jenna Elfman

‘Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.’ – Earl Blumenauer

‘Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.’ – Simon Newcomb

‘The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

‘If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.’ – Paul Eldridge

‘There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.’ – Michael E. Mann

‘The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra

‘Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That’s evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.’ – Alton Brown

‘Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook… so don’t touch that door!’ – Alton Brown

‘I can’t understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven’t really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa – 60 percent of people in – infected with HIV are women.’ – Annie Lennox

‘My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders… for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.’ – Julia Cameron

‘You know, don’t tell anybody I’m a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.’ – Todd Akin

‘Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.’ – Randy Johnson

‘Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.’ – W. E. B. Griffin

‘I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it’s cool to have strong and powerful pets.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.’ – Zack Snyder

‘I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.’ – Graham Swift

‘I like the idea of taking off like a bird.’ – Florence Welch

‘New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.’ – Margaret Chan

‘She was green when green wasn’t in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.’ – David Mixner

‘Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation’s capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.’ – David Mixner

‘Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma’s favorite.’ – Kris Carr

‘People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.’ – Marsha Norman

‘I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.’ – Alan King

‘Since 2001, people have been scared. There’s been some really scary stuff that’s been happening – 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system’s breaking down.’ – Max Brooks

‘I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile’s teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I’d lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.’ – Brian Jacques

‘My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘The one term I don’t like to be called is a ‘vulture.’ Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that’s much closer to what it is that we really do.’ – Wilbur Ross

‘Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don’t need to be subsidizing PBS. It’s time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with ‘Dora the Explorer’ and ‘Bob the Builder.” – Mark McKinnon

‘If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what’s going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.’ – Frans de Waal

‘Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children’s favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were ‘Big Bird.” – Joan Ganz Cooney

‘I’ve had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I’ve always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind’s eye more than: ‘I’m gonna draw a dog now.’ It isn’t thought out: ‘Now I’m gonna draw a bird.’ They just appear.’ – John Lurie

‘If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I’d say you were crazy.’ – Jenna McCarthy

‘After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.” – Kirk Hammett

‘Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc… there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.’ – Siegfried Woldhek

‘Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.’ – David J. Anderson

‘Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there’s a great feeling of: ‘Hey, I’m free as a bird.” – Dick Van Dyke

‘It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don’t really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I’m free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it’s, ‘Wow, that was brilliant,’ and if I do something bad, it just goes away.’ – Lena Olin

‘I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I’ve ever been to. You can look to your left and there’s a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.’ – Marsha Thomason

‘I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o’clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o’clock.’ – Dieter Rams

‘Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women – the old dragon or the dolly bird – but on the whole we’ve moved away from that.’ – Jo Brand

‘I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I’m there.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I saw someone the other day with yellow on their eyelids, and it looked so fresh. But I thought if I did that I’d look like a clown. So I went and I bought some yellow eye shadow from M.A.C. and I noticed that when you mix it with water it works better. So I tried it, and I looked like Big Bird. I will never do that again.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I’m not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I’m a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, ‘Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn’t totally real.” – Sophia Bush

‘I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.’ – James D. Watson

‘A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.” – Magic Johnson

‘Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation’s leaders and citizens.’ – Stewart Udall

‘I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.’ – Mark Salling

‘I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.’ – Ellsworth Kelly

‘I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don’t-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.’ – Martin Parr

‘I don’t have a big appetite. I don’t eat a lot, to be honest – never. I’m a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I’m not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘My first favourite book was ‘Are You My Mother?’ A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.’ – Rick Yancey

‘My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.’ – Bill Plympton

‘I’m not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I’d allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.’ – James Stephens

‘Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants.’ – Tristram Stuart

‘When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‘Bird,’ I use 90% black people.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.’ – Debi Mazar

‘I think the greatest player I’ve ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.’ – John Salley

‘I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I’m grateful, obviously. But I don’t gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.’ – Loudon Wainwright III

‘I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.’ – Margarita Levieva

‘I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can’t get out.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.’ – Patti Davis

‘I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together – to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘When I did ‘Bremner, Bird and Fortune’ I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.’ – Rory Bremner

”Flappy Bird’ was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.’ – Chris DeWolfe

‘I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You’ve probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn’t help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and ‘Jersey Shore.” – Sharon Kay Penman

‘I have nine children… and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.’ – Melville Fuller

‘In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food – for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.’ – Barbara Mandrell

‘Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.’ – E. F. Benson

‘It’s like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in ‘Horse, Flower, Bird’ I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.’ – Kate Bernheimer

‘My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.’ – Nell Newman

‘Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.’ – Elsa Peretti

‘I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine.’ – Kevin Whately

‘For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.’ – John Burnside

‘I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I’m such a free bird.’ – CeeLo Green

‘On ‘State of Affairs,’ we’re going after some names that you wouldn’t think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we’re gonna have the pick of the litter.’ – Joe Carnahan

‘I’ve played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I’m in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it’s just a number, and I said, ‘No, I genuinely feel older.” – Caroll Spinney

‘Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children’s character has been that complete and detailed.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I see no reason to quit. I can’t imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that’s an awfully good job that there’s not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can’t do it anymore.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘When he first started – Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar – he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was – a script came along and I said, ‘I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.’ And so he didn’t know the alphabet, even, for instance.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I think there’s an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much – I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I was asked to be on ‘The Colbert Report’ last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn’t know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who’s a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left… But if they are all moving to the left, I’m moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that’s okay, because they are individuals anyway.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I’ve learned to say, ‘I’m a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.” – Caroll Spinney

‘I know I don’t own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character – great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn’t know that my face was streamed with tears.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.’ – Bill Buford

‘Wherever I am, I start my day, it’s the same. I’m not an early bird. I’m not waking up at five o’clock, six o’clock; it’s usually seven-thirty, eight o’clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.’ – Roustam Tariko

‘As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.’ – Lynn Coady

‘I thought, ‘What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?” – John Corey Whaley

‘The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.’ – Allan Gurganus

‘We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you’re supposed to think that it’s not hot. And the bird is red: you’re supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.’ – Michael Graves

‘In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent.’ – George Vecsey

‘What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?’ – George Vecsey

‘The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, ‘Bird,’ was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood’s potential as a filmmaker.’ – Steve Erickson

‘A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird’s nest of shiny things. Little things that don’t make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.’ – Molly O’Keefe

‘The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.’ – Michael Greger

‘The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘When I was eight or nine, I came to London for the day from Swindon and went to The National Gallery. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square with my best friend Tim, who was covered in pigeons because I put bird seed on his head.’ – Tom Ellis

‘I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘I’m not really into the fame thing. I’ve met so many celebrities now, and everybody’s just the same. I’m a bit of a family bird.’ – Lee Pearson

‘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 is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.’ – John Burroughs

‘The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.’ – John Burroughs

‘I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.’ – Simon Helberg

‘My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We’ve been trading it back and forth ever since – 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it’s slowly revealed.’ – Eric Stonestreet

‘I’m not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘I’m the smallest man in show business, and I’ve got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.’ – Kenny Baker

‘The reform and opening up of China hasn’t been happening quite the way we’ve been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.’ – Chai Jing

‘James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.’ – Justin Cartwright

‘As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It’s about the least flavorful bird on the planet.’ – Kimbal Musk

‘So what did influence ‘Bird Box?’ Well, I’ve had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.’ – Josh Malerman

‘Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it’s the end of the world. But ‘Bird Box’ hasn’t convinced me of that. Is ‘Bird Box’ instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don’t think so. But it’s fun to consider.’ – Josh Malerman

‘I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that’s how ‘Bird Box’ got to where it is now.’ – Josh Malerman

‘I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird’s eye view of it.’ – Eric Andre

‘I was affectionately known as Bird Legs during high school.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I’ve come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It’s the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.’ – Banks

‘Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like ‘Simple Man’ and ‘Free Bird’ and ‘Alabama.’ I wasn’t prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.’ – Johnny Colt

”Free Bird’ is timeless, ‘Sweet Home’ is timeless. They’re just timeless songs.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with ‘Free Bird,’ so I’ve been watching it since I was a kid.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with ‘The Bomb Squad’ on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear.’ – Timothy Olyphant

‘It’s common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became ‘scorpion’ because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.’ – Walter O’Brien

‘I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.’ – Don Rickles

‘I must’ve been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I’m called to flying – the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.’ – Rachel Keller

‘I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones – ‘The Crying Game’ I loved working on, and then ‘Bird,’ ‘Ghost Dog,’ so many films.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘I think I’ve made some choices that maybe I wasn’t so sure about for some reason or another. But I’m one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that’s a role people wait for their whole lifetime.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events – everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women – going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It’s how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don’t know too many new bands that will have a ‘Free Bird’ that will be around 30 years later. It’s become a national anthem of sorts.’ – Rickey Medlocke

‘We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don’t sit around trying to write another ‘Free Bird’ or ‘Sweet Home Alabama.” – Rickey Medlocke

‘We started playing ‘Free Bird’ in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.’ – Gary Rossington

‘A long time ago, I had a bird that annoyed me, and the bird had to go. The bird’s neck was snapped. I would also snap Conor McGregor’s neck in a similar fashion.’ – Michael Bisping

‘The older I get, I realize, ‘Man, I’m a very rare bird,’ and that’s not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called ‘Lady Bird,’ I thought, ‘This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.” – Laurie Metcalf

”Lady Bird’ probably doesn’t need more attention than it has gotten. It’s a perfect movie, and some of its perfection is in its casting, but this is a movie crammed with wonderful work by people who aren’t Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan: people like Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and, yes, that Timothee Chalamet.’ – Wesley Morris

‘A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it – and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a ‘dirty bird.’ She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it.’ – Wesley Morris

‘Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it’s cooked.’ – Jonathan Miles

‘Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete’s grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite – they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.’ – Steve Rushin

‘I’ve just seen it all – I’ve seen the bird flu, I’ve seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.’ – Alan Mulally

‘I want to do stuff like ‘Lady Bird.’ I want people to say, ‘She told amazing stories.” – Letitia Wright

‘You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.’ – Ian Harding

‘It’s like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.’ – Peggy Whitson

”Winnie the Pooh’s Grand Adventure’ – the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him – I cried.’ – Noelle Stevenson

‘Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.’ – Jeff Vandermeer

‘When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I’d draw it.’ – Amy Sherald

‘I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.’ – Matt Besser

‘When I got to sit in Big Bird’s nest with Big Bird and sing the song, ‘Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,’ that was my crowning achievement.’ – Noah Wyle

‘Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see a golden plover that’s been reported in the neighbourhood, just because it’s a beautiful bird, with truly golden plumage, and has flown all the way from Alaska.’ – Jonathan Franzen

‘Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had a bird chest, I was a singer. I’ve always been like this, and I’ve gotten better because I’ve progressed.’ – Luke James

‘I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, ‘Dead bird, dead bird.’ It didn’t feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.’ – Rza

‘Adam Scott sings like a bird… He’s so bad. He’s so bad.’ – Jean-Marc Vallee

‘Whenever I meet someone new, I always extend a hand and say, ‘Hi I’m Lana Condor… Condor like the ugly endangered bird.’ I like to see how people react to that and if they laugh and, indeed, know what a condor is… chances are we’re going to get along just fine!’ – Lana Condor

‘One of the most humbling gigs I’ve ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.’ – Walker Hayes

‘Lots of people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ Apparently, being a columnist, TV bird, all-round good egg, mother of three, and wife of one is not sufficient for them.’ – Katie Hopkins

‘When I was younger, most people thought my lips looked like Tweety Bird’s – there were always comments like that from family and neighbors.’ – Lindsey Wixson

‘The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.’ – Jalen Rose

‘All truly great shooters – Dale Ellis, Larry Bird, Craig Hodges, Chris Mullin – we always believed that we were the best shooters in the world.’ – Reggie Miller

‘When you write fiction, you’re like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It’s funny how things come back to you.’ – J. Courtney Sullivan

‘I could talk about ‘Lady Bird’ for literally the rest of my life! It never gets old.’ – Beanie Feldstein

‘When I think about filming ‘Lady Bird,’ I think about, dancing, eating, and laughing, which are three of my favorite things, so it’s great.’ – Beanie Feldstein

‘I’ll remember my life as pre-‘Lady Bird’ and post-‘Lady Bird.” – Beanie Feldstein

‘I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘I was compared to a bird that was too fat to lift itself off the ground.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.’ – Christian Laettner

‘Some of the guys in the Eastern Conference, I had never been on their teams – like Larry Bird: even though you make the All Star team, you’re going to be in the West; he’s on the East. So you’re never going to be teammates.’ – Clyde Drexler

‘Just basketball in general in Indiana is just huge, so that’s everybody’s getaway. That’s our main thing, to think about the history. Obviously, Larry Bird is a very, very big part of that.’ – Greg Oden

‘Since I’ve been five, people asked me if we’re related. It is usually the third question in the line of questions. What’s your name? Sue Bird. Oh, what do you do? I play basketball. Are you related to Larry Bird? That’s how it goes. I guess it could be worse, though, since he is a legend and all.’ – Sue Bird

‘I went to a party when I was a student and they had a mynah bird up in the bedroom where people put their coats. I was completely captivated – I just sat there all night talking to it. The next day I passed a pet shop and they had a conure – it’s a little parakeet – in the window. I bought it, not knowing what it was or how to look after it.’ – Derren Brown

‘If you ask my dad, I’m always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.’ – Jill Ellis

‘Bizarrely, our English word ‘sturdy’ may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as ‘sturdy’ in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird.’ – Susie Dent

‘I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, ‘Gee, life can come to an end – crunch! – just like that.” – Gary Larson

‘Slum children eat crow’s eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It’s the exotic birds which fascinate all.’ – Vetrimaaran

‘Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I’m the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk

‘I’m very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I’m obsessive compulsive. I don’t mind admitting it.’ – Gilbert O’Sullivan

‘Larry Bird was a talker. He’d tell you something and you’d be like, are you kidding me? You’re really telling me that?’ – Gary Payton

‘Oh, man, I was a stick in high school. I had a bird chest; I got called that a lot: ‘Bird chest.’ But I’ve always been comfortable with my body, even when I was super skinny.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘I don’t always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they’re from Tom Brady and Gronk.’ – Martellus Bennett

‘One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn’t make any sense.’ – Patrik Baboumian

‘I always found it a great challenge playing against Michael Jordan, to play against Magic Johnson, to play against Larry Bird, to play against all those good players because it’s something that you can take away from it.’ – Shawn Kemp

‘I remember when I was a rookie, there was an article in ‘USA Today’ that said, ‘Larry Bird, he’s lost a step.’ That night I went out to guard him, he scored, like, 47 on me.’ – Shawn Kemp

‘In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.’ – Charles Oakley

‘When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that’s attracted to shiny things. They’ll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.’ – Leslie Jordan

‘I’m always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I’m into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.’ – Gemma Collins

‘Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a scientific standpoint. You’re always going to be looked at as a different bird.’ – Bryson DeChambeau

‘Writing ‘Blue Bird’ gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.’ – Jasmine Cephas Jones

‘Culturally, musically, historically Cuba and Puerto Rico are like two wings of one bird.’ – Pedro Capo

‘When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch – Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.’ – Zion Williamson

‘Using Roblox is free but the creators are able to charge virtual currency for the experiences. In our bird simulator you can become an eagle for $10.’ – David Baszucki

‘When you’re playing tag in Roblox; or when you’re working in a pizza restaurant; or when you’re flying as a bird – you’re there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.’ – David Baszucki

‘I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the ‘Flying Nun’ throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.’ – Hal Needham

‘Magic Johnson didn’t play the style that Larry Bird did, and Michael Jordan sure didn’t play the style that Magic or Bird played.’ – O. J. Mayo

‘My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I’m a gun owner myself.’ – Doug McMillon

‘Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era – he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.’ – Fabolous

‘Lately I think of myself as more bird than human.’ – Dean Potter

‘All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird’s eye view, it’s the Indigenous way of storytelling.’ – Aaron Pedersen

‘The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave, which is itself the world’s largest pile of bird and bat poo, into a seething mass of invertebrate horror!’ – Steve Backshall

‘If I could be any animal I’d probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to cover huge distances of sea every single day would be wonderful!’ – Steve Backshall

‘One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ it’s the other one, ‘Still I Rise.” – Chi Chi DeVayne

‘Larry Bird is a hard man to deal with. He tries to make unfair trades.’ – Jermaine O’Neal

‘Every time I ask someone to tell me, ‘What animal do you think I am?’ they always say a bird, because I’m very flighty. It’s the worst one.’ – Emma Corrin

‘One of my dear friends became Michael Jordan. That gave me a lot of access there. But I had access to everybody from Larry Bird to Magic Johnson to all of the other guys.’ – Ahmad Rashad

‘I have never had any animal growing up, never had a hamster, bird, dog, or cat.’ – Kenya Moore

‘You can’t compare me to Larry Bird.’ – Luka Doncic

‘The renaissance of the NBA in the 80s was due to the racial proxy battle between charming, good looking and unmistakably Black Magic Johnson of the glitzy Showtime Los Angeles Lakers vs. the lanky, tousled hair, Indiana born White Larry Bird of the blue-collar Boston Celtics.’ – Jason Johnson

‘We all look to Sue I think when you’re fortunate enough to have a legend like Sue Bird on your team, someone who has gone through basically every instance possible on and off the court, when she talks, you listen. And we look to her.’ – Breanna Stewart