A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.