43 Hummingbird Quotes That Bring Joy And Color To Your Life

"Neither the hummingbird nor the flower wonders how beautiful it is."

"Like the hummingbird sipping nectar from every flower, I fly joyfully through my days, seeing beauty in everything."

"Hummingbird darts lightly through the world, spreading its message of joy and beauty, and teaching us to appreciate the wonder and magic of everyday existence."

"Hummingbird—with brave wings she flies."

"You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may have come from different species, but as long as you’re a bird, I’m a bird too."

"Hummingbird teaches us to transcend time, to recognize that what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future is not nearly as important as what we are experiencing now. It teaches us to hover in the moment, to appreciate its sweetness."

"The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible. It will teach you how to find the miracle of joyful living from your own life circumstances."

"Hummingbirds that defend territories of many flowers remember which flowers they have recently emptied."

"There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds."

"The hummingbird realized that this was a psychological tightrope that he had to navigate carefully, so he did it sideways because this was the only way he could move when perched."

"A flash of harmless lightning, a mist of rainbow dyes. The burnished sunbeams brightening. From flower to flower he flies."

"We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. But we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can."

"Hummingbird brings the gift of joy. Learn to laugh and be happy."

"Obviously, he had this native intelligence—this sensitivity and this ability to move rapidly through a whole range of material. You could just feel him taking stuff in with that gadfly energy—that hummingbird energy—taking a little something from here, there and everywhere, taking a little something from everything."

"Hummingbird is the spirit of pure joy! She is the messenger of beauty and wonder, and she reminds us to taste the sweet nectar of life."

"A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him."

"You were like the hummingbird to me, and I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together. It is not that I fear the knowing. It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me—it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive."

"A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!"

"Gentle day's flower- The hummingbird competes with the stillness of the air."

"Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings"

"You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life - you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life."

"My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums."

"And the humming bird that hung like a jewel up among the tilted honeysuckle horns. They mesmerized and swung In the palpitating air. Drowsed with odors strange and rare. And, with whispered laughter, slipped away. And let him hanging there."

"Flutter like a hummingbird, dive like an eagle, ain't no bird that's my equal."

"After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring."

"The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability."

"As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they still go on."

"I’d like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don’t see them everywhere."

"Quick as a humming bird…she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart."

"By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?"

"May my faith always be at the end of the day like a hummingbird returning to its favorite flower."

"He has the attention span of a hummingbird."

"Time passes as fast as a hummingbird flutters."

"Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur."

"She spoke quickly, her tongue feeling like a hummingbird’s wing; she was so afraid of boring him if she took too long."

"Fashion is so rich and it is an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration- just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers."

"He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird."

"In Mexico, people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love."

"If I were a flower, the hummingbird would be my favorite bee; and if I were blind, the light of darkness I’d love to see."

"I'm more of a culture hummingbird."

"Even a hummingbird couldn't catch Tyler at work."

"Hummingbird stays for a fractional sharp sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take more than that."

"I never answered your question, if I’d ever thought about being human. Once. I was on a track in the andes, and a hummingbird flew up to me and just hovered there staring at me. Its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun… And I thought, ‘what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive, to be constantly on the verge of death, and how satisfying every day must be that it survived…’ And that was the only time I thought about being human."