Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

— Dick Van Dyke

Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

— Caroll Spinney

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view, and they don't create a systematic plan.

— Dave Ramsey

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

— Ivan Pavlov

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

— Emily Dickinson

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

— Myron Scholes

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

— Debi Mazar

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

— John Burroughs