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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

— C. S. Lewis

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

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

— Brian Jacques

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

— Stewart Udall

London is a roost for every bird.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

— Joan Fontaine

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

— Malala Yousafzai

My heart is like a singing bird.

— Christina Rossetti

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

— William Blake