A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

— Valentina Tereshkova

A forest bird never wants a cage.

— Henrik Ibsen

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

— Jenna Elfman

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

— George Eliot

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

— Francis Beaumont

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

— Joseph Conrad

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Bronte

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

— Roger Tory Peterson