I know why the caged bird sings.
- Maya AngelouNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William BlakeI hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Emily DickinsonWhen thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
- William BlakeI realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
- Charles LindberghI know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can`t fly very high.
- Agatha BonifaceGod loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques DevalFall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David LettermanUse what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Abhi TalwalkarI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Adam DeadmarshThe 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.
- Abby SallengerThere 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.
- Adolph S. OchsThose little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Abram L. UrbanCranes 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 BurgessOur 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 BurgessMuch 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.
- Adrian FryxellI once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David ThoreauThe 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!
- Adam ArmstrongBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn`t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose KennedyA bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Andy DingleyHow helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain