For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

- Al Purdy

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

- Brian Lamb

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

- Boyle Roche

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.

- Bill Plympton

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

- Bret Harte

In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

- Barbara Mandrell

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

- Byron Dorgan

Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

- Bill Buford

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

- Benjamin Franklin

London is a roost for every bird.

- Benjamin Disraeli

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

- Alan King

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

- Alma Gluck

I'm sort of a strange bird.

- Ann Bancroft

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

- Andrew Motion

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

- Alton Brown

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

- Alton Brown

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

- Alan Perlis

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

- Annie Lennox

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

- Amy Tan