Bird
Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
To catch or shoot birds.
Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
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Bird Quotations
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
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
David Herbert Lawrence
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
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
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
Bird Translations
bird in Danish is fugl
bird in Dutch is vogel
bird in Finnish is lintu
bird in French is oiseau
bird in German is Vogel
bird in Italian is uccello
bird in Norwegian is fugl
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