Top 1200 Sea Birds Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

Dive into the sea, or stay away

I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Game-keepers on grouse moors control common predators such as foxes and crows and this gives wading birds a much greater chance of breeding successfully.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

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

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.

We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.