When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.
Douglas Brinkley
BirdEvilForestUnderstandingYou
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
Barbara Windsor
MotherAgeMyselfBirdWomanMe
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel
BirdMenManMoreNeverThan
In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
Barbara Mandrell
MorningBirdFoodBirdsYearGarden
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter
LifeFailureBirdBestYouEarly
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
Sylvester Stallone
BirdSchoolChildWindowFollowSaw
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.
Shilpa Shetty
MorningMyselfBirdSaturdayEarly
You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.
Todd Akin
BirdYouKnowJailMovementTell
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
Norman Ralph Augustine
BirdEarlyEarly BirdWormEaten
'Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure' - the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him - I cried.
Noelle Stevenson
BirdAdventureBabyHimUpRabbit
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
Myron Scholes
BirdDeathEarlySometimesFrozen
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady
BirdExperienceTiredNightWake Up
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.
Klaus Kinski
BirdSkyWindowBetterLookSee
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie
BirdBrokenJoyYouthEggOut
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer
LoveMotherBirdChildSongCage
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver
LifeFlowerBirdMeColorName
I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
Ellsworth Kelly
BirdMeColorsEyeBookGrandmother
The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh
BirdAchievementSimpleConstruction
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
BirdMindMeEarlyNobodySpecial
Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
Joe Pantoliano
BirdSchoolI AmActingYearsBeing
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
Wes Craven
BirdBestSongI CanGoingSing
Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.
John Burnside
ArtBirdAlwaysBeenIllustration
Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Randy Johnson
BirdBestRelaxStartGameEnergy
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.
Jenna McCarthy
BirdDressMeCrazyHusbandThought
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