Young Mockingbird
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
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
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
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
(Perhaps young hawks?)
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo
Who's real?
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
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke