Bluebird Quotes
Bluebird Quotes and Quotations A – I
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Eastern Bluebird
Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. They have blue, or blue and red, plumage. Female birds are less brightly colored than males, although color patterns are similar and there is no noticeable difference in size between sexes.
The bluebirds are a group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Sialia of the thrush family (Turdidae).
Bluebirds are territorial, prefer open grassland with scattered trees and are cavity nesters, similar to woodpeckers.
Predators of young bluebirds in the nests can include snakes, cats and raccoons. Non-native and native bird species competing with bluebirds for nesting locations include the Common Starling, American Crow, and House Sparrow, which take over the nesting sites of bluebirds, killing young and smashing eggs and probably killing adult bluebirds.
Bluebird Quotes
Eastern Bluebird
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…so soft and gentle; they sing to no one save themselves. Not loud and boastful like the mocker; not full of chatter like the purple martin. The bluebird song is a kind and personal “I love you” that one must be close and quiet to hear.
- Kenny Kleinpeter, 2004
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…the memory of a bluebird’s predawn warble or of a glimpse of a sun-bathed flash of pure blue lives forever.
- Stanwyn G Shetler, forward to Larry Zeleny’s The Bluebird, How you can Help Its Fight for Survival, 1975
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A flowered patch where insects hatch, A bluebird hovers there.
- Terry Lobdell – see compete poem
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A homeowner will take better care of bluebirds in a backyard box than a trail manager ever could.
- Steve Garr, NABS 2006 conference
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A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.
- Lewis Gannett (printed in The Gardener’s Guide to Life, Griswold Freeman)
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But no blue, not even the brightest summer sky, seems as blue as the bluebirds of spring.
- Ron Hirschi
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But you, you will know why the bluebird has returned.
- Andre Dion, The Return of the Bluebird (Le Retour de L’Oiseau Bleu), 1981
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Daddy dear, tell me please, is the world really round? Tell me where is the bluebird of happiness found?
- Little Child (Mon Enfant), Wes Montgomery, Ralph Towner, Spike Jones
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Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety.
- Woody Allen
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Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
- Ray Briggs, 1998
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Gone away is the bluebird
- Richard B. Smith, 1934, lyrics of Winter Wonderland
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Gonna find me a bluebird, let him sing me a song ‘Cause my heart’s been broken much too long.
- Marvin Rainwater, Gonna Find Me a Bluebird Lyrics, 1955
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His soft warble melts the ear, as the snow is melting in the valleys around. The bluebird comes and with his warbles drills the ice and sets from the rivers and ponds and frozen ground.
- Henry D. Thoreau, March 2, 1859
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House sparrows will reward your kindness by killing your bluebirds
- Bob Orthwein
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How shall we adjust to the morning silence that does not belong
In the empty space left by the absence of our bluebirds song?
- Wendell Long, 2005
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How the waiting countryside thrills with joy when Bluebird brings us the first word of returning spring. Reflecting heaven from his back and the ground from his breast, he floats between sky and earth like the winged voice of hope.
- WL Dawson, Birds of Ohio, 1903
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I am not fighting against Starlings and House Sparrows. I am fighting FOR bluebirds and tree swallows.
- Paul Kilduff, Bluebird_L, 2007
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I garden, therefore I WEED. I raise bluebirds, therefore I remove House Sparrows.
- Keith Kridler, 2006
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I guess everyone must decide for himself the lengths to which he will go to protect his Bluebirds.
- Bruce Burdett, NH Bluebird Conspiracy, 2005
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I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
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I have seen amazing sights in my many years but I would be hard pressed to name one that exceeds the wonder and magic of the first flight of a bluebird.
- Wendell Long, 2005
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I hope bluebirds dance in your soul.
- Al Batt
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I think this is a bit premature. After all, who has ever seen a bluebird, except perhaps on the cover of a greeting card?
- Reaction of a delegate when the bluebird was proposed as the state bird for New York in 1970
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I wish you bluebirds in the spring, To give your heart a song to sing …
- I wish you love, written by A. A. Beach & C. Trenet, 1946
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I would rather see 300 nestboxes placed in 300 different yards than for me to have 300 nestboxes filled with bluebirds.
- Keith Krilder, Bluebird_L, 2008
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I’m not sure the bluebirds actually need us as much as we need them. The next generation needs something to be amazed by.
- Keith Kridler at NABS 2006 conference
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If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature-if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you-know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.
- Henry D. Thoreau
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If you like bluebirds, there can’t be much wrong with you.
- Maxine Manees
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If you mess around with bluebirds, chances are heartbreak will interrupt the joy sooner or later. Be still and listen, for the Joy shall return to sing another day.
- Wendell Long, 2005
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I’m always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
- Joseph McCarthy, song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, 1918
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In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha, 1855
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It is the general belief that none of our native birds deserve protection more than does the bluebird.
- Frank G. Ashbrook, The Green Book of Birds of America, 1931
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Bluebird Definition
From Dictionary.com
blue·bird
[bloo-burd]
–noun
1.any of several small North American songbirds of the genus Sialia, having predominantly blue plumage, as the eastern S. sialis, which has a blue back and a reddish-brown breast.
2.fairy bluebird.
3.( usually initial capital letter ) a member of Camp Fire, Inc., who is between the ages of six and eight.
World English Dictionary
blue·bird
— n
1. any North American songbird of the genus Sialia , having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
2. fairy bluebird any songbird of the genus Irena , of S and SE Asia, having a blue-and-black plumage: family Irenidae
3. any of various other birds having a blue plumage
Bluebird Quotes
Mountain Bluebird
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know..
- Henry David Thoreau
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Most of what I’ve learned about bluebirds is from friends I’ve never met except on the Internet.
- Bet Zimmerman, 2007
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Nothing brightens up a winter day like a bluebird in the snow atop a nestbox.
- Linda Ruth, Bluebird_L, 2006
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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best….
- John Burroughs, The Bluebird
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One of the earliest comers, the Bluebird is gladly welcomed as the harbinger of Spring….
- John B. Grant, Our Common Birds and How to Know Them, 1891
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Since we’ve been able to create that artificial cavity – boom. The bluebird came back. It’s a key factor in the whole process.
- Gary Springer
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So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?” “Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse. These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.
- Susan Coolidge (pseudonym of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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So why do I kill sparrows and not much else? Because I’d rather have a dead sparrow than a dead bluebird.
- Dottie Roseboom, 2004
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Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow, why, then oh why can’t I?
- Words by Edgard Y. Harburg, Over the Rainbow, from the film Wizard of Oz, 1939
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Spread the bluebird word!
- Greg & Terry Tellier
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau quotes
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The Eastern Bluebird was very conspicuous during the calm, warm ‘Indian summer’ days of late October–such weather was called ‘bluebird weather’ by local sportsmen.
- Milton B. Trautman (1940) quoted in A.C. Bent’s Life Histories of North American Birds
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The mother bluebird had laid her full complement of eggs and was beginning to set, when one day, as her mate was perched above her on the barn, along came a boy with one of those wicked elastic slings and cut him down with a pebble. There he lay like a bit of sky fallen upon the grass.
- John Burroughs, The Bluebird, 1867
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The note of lament which is so plainly expressed in the Bluebird’s abbreviated warble as it prepares to follow the retreating summer, brings a sympathetic echo from many a human heart.
- Birds of America, George Gladden, 1917
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The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.
- Thomas Roberts, Birds of Minnesota, 1932
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The spring and summer song of the bluebird is a soft and often repeated warble: in the month of October, his song changes to a single plaintive note.
- Encyclopedia Americana, 1849
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The story of the bluebird’s trials is a poignant one, beautiful enough to make you weep.
- Andre Dion, The Return of the Bluebird, 1981
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This is one of the earliest birds to arrive in the spring; it is a question which we are likely to meet first, the Bluebird or the Robin, but not infrequently a flash of the cerulean color tells us the Bluebird has won in the race northward.
- F. Schuyler Mathews, 1904 Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music
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To many the bluebird is the favorite of all birds.
- Frank G. Ashbrook, The Green Book of Birds of America, 1931
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Today…the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.
- Henry D. Thoreau, 9/29/1842
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We celebrate the beautiful bluebird as a symbol of love, hope and happiness.
- Larry Zeleny
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What is really incredible about bluebirding is that there are as many ways to bluebird as there are bluebirders!
- Haleya Priest, 2000
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What really makes my day is to get up early in the morning, just as the sun comes up, and hear bluebirds….
- Jack Finch
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When bluebirds fledge from my nestboxes I hope and pray a little that they will search out someone in desperate need of The Bluebird Of Happiness!
- Keith Kridler, Bluebird_L, 2008
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When Nature made the bluebird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast, and ordained that his appearance in spring should denote that the strife and war between these two elements was at an end. He is the peace-harbinger; in him the celestial and terrestrial strike hands and are fast friends. He means the furrow and he means the warmth; he means all the soft, wooing influences of the spring on the one hand, and the retreating footsteps of winter on the other.
- John Burroughs, The Bluebird, 1867
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When you see a bluebird, it just takes your breath away.
- Barbara Clark of Bickleton
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Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?
- Edmund C. Stedman, The Flight of Birds (1833-1908)
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Who does not welcome the beloved Bluebird and all that his coming implies? His cheery warble, heard at first as a mere wandering voice in the sky, heralds returning spring …. Snow may still lie in patches or drift in flurries; but when the Bluebird comes we know that spring is near.
- John B. May, abridgment to A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America, 1930′s
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A friend gave them a Bluebird book
And ever since they have been hooked.
First a plan and then a house
Put together by a helpful spouse.
- “Bluebird Bob” Walshaw, First Bluebirds, 2002
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And when he sings to you, Though you’re deep in blue, You will see a ray of light creep through,
And so remember this, life is no abyss, Somewhere there’s a bluebird of happiness. Life is sweet, tender and complete, when you find the bluebird of happiness.
- Bluebird of Happiness, lyrics by Edward Heyman & Harry Parr Davies, 1934
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A bluebird, famous for the scrap of sky
Borne on his back – an indigo so bright
That just a glimpse of his distinctive flight,
All swoop and flurry, captivates the eye …
- George Bradley, “New Yorker”, p. 146, Mar. 19, 2001
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Blue skies Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies Do I see
Bluebirds Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds All day long
- Irving Berlin, Blue Skies, 1927
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Bluebird flying high,
Tell me what you sing.
If you could talk to me,
What news would you bring
Of voices in the sky?
- The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord, lyrics from Voices in the Sky, Justin Hayward, 1968
Mountain Bluebird
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But there be others, happier few, The vagabondish sons of God,
Who know the by-ways and the flowers, And care not how the world may plod.
They idle down the traffic lands, And loiter through the woods with spring;
To them the glory of the earth Is but to hear a bluebird sing.
- From The Mendicants, Bliss Carman (1861–1929)
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Five little blue birds, hopping by my door
One went to build a nest, and then there were four.
Four little blue birds singing lustily
One got out of tune, and then there were three
Three little blue birds, and what should one do,
But go in search of dinner, leaving only two.
Two little blue birds singing for fun
One flew away, and then there was one.
One little blue bird sitting in the sun
He took a little nap, and then there was none.
- Children’s Nursery Rhyme
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Kentucky Bluebird, I hear your song today
But when I try to touch you, you fly away
- Keith Whitley, Kentucky Bluebird lyrics
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Late at night when the wind is still
I’ll come flying through your door,
And you’ll know what love is for.
I’m a bluebird, I’m a bluebird…
- Paul McCartney, Band on the Run, lyrics to Bluebird
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Like a bluebird with his heart removed, lonely as a train, I’ve run just as far as I can run.
- How Long, by The Eagles (first verse)
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Listen to my bluebird laugh. She can’t tell you why. Deep within her heart, you see, she knows only crying. Just crying. There she sits, a lofty perch. Strangest color blue. Flying is forgotten now. Thinks only of you. Just you. …. Soon she’s going to fly away. Sadness is her own. Reverse of a death of tears and go home, and go home.
- Bluebird by Buffalo Springfield
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Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder, It’s the truth, it’s actual, Ev’rything is satisfactual, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay,Wonderful feeling, wonderful day…
- from the film The Song of the South, words by Ray Gilbert, 1945
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Please excuse my dirty house
I know it is a mess
I don’t have time to clean right now
I have a bluebird nest ….
- Cherie Layton, The Bluebird Nut, 2005
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Soft moss a downy pillow makes, and green leaves spread a tent,
Where Faerie fold may rest and sleep until their night is spent.
The bluebird sings a lullaby, the firefly gives a light,
The twinkling stars are candles bright, Sleep, Faeries all, Good Night.
- Elizabeth T. Dillingham, “A Faery Song”
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Somewhere the bluebird is singing, And somewhere the skies are blue.
So lift up your head to the skies And be happy
For this is true: Somewhere the bluebird is singing
And winging his way to you.
- Sheet music
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The Bluebird, shifting his light load of song
From post to post along the cheerless fence…
- Under the Willows, by James Russell Lowell
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There’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see
There’ll be love and laughter and peace ever after, Tomorrow when the world is free.
- The White Cliffs of Dover, Nat Burton, 1941
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There’s a bluebird on your windowsill, There’s a rainbow in your sky, There are happy thoughts, your heart to fill, Near enough to make you cry.
- Elizabeth Clark, Bluebird on Your Windowsill (song)
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Where are those little bluebirds?
I ask where did they go?
I’m hoping they’ll surprise me.
I’m hoping that they’ll show.
I’m looking for that flash of blue
Before we get some snow!
- Lorraine Mastalski, 11/7/03
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The mockingbird is truly named, for mockingly says he,
“I mimic birds you’d never hear, if it were not for me.”
These are birds that won’t be found in your places strifed and harrowed,
you’ve overbuilt, overrun, so overly house-sparrowed.
You’ve never heard, so never miss, a plaintive bluebird sing.
But more than birds, entire worlds, have fled upon the wing.
- Henry Smith
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Charles Bukowski
“There’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you. …
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