Pecking Order

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Sometime the peacock wish to be the seagull. - Jamaican Saying

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys

A lot of people attack the sea. I make love to it. - Jacques Cousteau

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

The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

Suppose you get an attack of gastriasis in the middle of the night. - Archie Bunker

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

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. - Amy Tan

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Benchley

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. - Edward Norton

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright

Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan

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

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively. - Sean Hannity

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

You can't fly with the owls by night and expect to keep up with the eagles during the day. - Unknown

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they'll make mistakes. - Kurt Angle

Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. - Jane Austen

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back. - Donald Trump

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction. - Aesop

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd