Bird Person

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot. - Mark Twain

Egg: 1. A day's work for a hen; 2. A bird's hometown. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

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

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Live so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

I know of only one bird (the parrot) that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo