Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows…

“Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.”

— James Dashner The Maze Runner

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…

— Thornton Wilder

The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes…

— Jamie Glazov

A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her…

— Arundhati Roy

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various…

— Wallace Stevens

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that…

— Eva Ibbotson

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

— William Shakespeare

Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Evita Peron

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

— Rob Brezsny

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

— Lisa Ann Sandell

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

— Martin Luther

Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a…

— Thomas S. Monson