Top 1200 Early Bird Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 13, 2025.
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.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
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.
To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock. — © Dieter Rams
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.
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.
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.
Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!
I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying. — © Sri Chinmoy
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
The early bird catches the worm.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.
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.
You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.
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.
The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.
I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.
Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
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.
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.
A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor. — © Roseanne Barr
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
The early worm deserves the bird.
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
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
I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Early bird Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator.
You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.
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