James Birney may refer to:
- James G. Birney (1792–1857), American presidential candidate for the Liberty Party
- James M. Birney (1817–1888), Michigan politician, son of James G. Birney
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or birney:
“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“owls in the beardusky woods”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)