2.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow
3.
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
Evita Peron
4.
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
William Shakespeare
5.
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Johnny Depp
6.
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
Thornton Wilder
9.
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
Catullus
10.
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
11.
I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.
David Letterman
12.
The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.
John J. Geddes
13.
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
Lauren Oliver
14.
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
Will Cuppy
15.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
Ann Brashares
16.
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
Adam Zagajewski
17.
I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
Gladys Taber
18.
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
Alan Coren
19.
Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.
Johnny Depp
20.
Nature is one with rapine,
a harm no preacher can heal;
The Mayfly is torn by the swallow,
the sparrow speared by the shrike,
And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
21.
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
John Kenneth Galbraith
22.
I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.
Ethel Waters
23.
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.
Lisa Ann Sandell
24.
Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
Gary Soto
26.
God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...
Sharon Jones
27.
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
Henry David Thoreau
29.
I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.
John Keats
30.
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
Edith Roosevelt
31.
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
Catullus
33.
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
Geoffrey Rush
35.
I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.
Tamora Pierce
37.
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
Samuel Johnson
38.
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
40.
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
Laurie Halse Anderson
41.
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
Joan Didion
42.
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
John Steinbeck
43.
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
Georgette Heyer
44.
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
Nick Cave
45.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Steven Moffat