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Sparrows Quotes

1.
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
Rabindranath Tagore

Authors on Sparrows Quotes: Catullus Johnny Depp Mehmet Murat Ildan Lisa Ann Sandell Will Cuppy Gladys Taber David Letterman Mary Doria Russell Laurie Halse Anderson Edith Roosevelt John Steinbeck Sharon Jones Georgette Heyer William Shakespeare Mary E. Pearson Nick Cave Ethel Waters Steven Moffat Henry David Thoreau Rabindranath Tagore Alan Coren Geoffrey Rush Evita Peron John Keats Gary Soto Jean Ingelow Tamora Pierce Alfred Lord Tennyson Georg C. Lichtenberg Adam Zagajewski John Kenneth Galbraith Lauren Oliver Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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

7.
The sparrow flies south for the winter.
Derek Landy

8.
Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

25.
Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
Heather O'Neill

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

28.
One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

32.
The sparrow still falls.
Mary Doria Russell

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

34.
I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
Mary E. Pearson

35.
I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.
Tamora Pierce

36.
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

39.
My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.
Lisa Ann Sandell

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