Sparrows Quotes

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

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.

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

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.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

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.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

The sparrow still falls.

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

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.

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

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.'

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

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.

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?

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

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.

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.