The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet… — Sarah Winnemucca Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories… — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would… — William Cartwright Copy Share Image
Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way.… — Donald E. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image