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. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. (Quote by - Richard P. Feynman)

Turkey, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Fish got to swim and birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die, Can't help lovin' dat man of mine. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein II)

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and the flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)

There 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. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?(Quote by - Rose F. Kennedy)

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat. (Quote by - Muhammed Ali)

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (Quote by - William Blake)

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. (Quote by - Elizabeth Coatsworth)

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night!"(Quote by - Enid Bagnold)

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!(Quote by - Robert Browning)

Gay, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. (Quote by - Charles Sprague )