Sparrow Quotes

95 Sparrow quotes by 78 unique authors

The sparrow still falls. — Mary Doria Russell
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or… — James Lee Burke
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 nest.… — Arundhati Roy
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow… — Carl Sagan
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it. — John Steinbeck
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people. — Steven Moffat
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. — Walter Dean Myers
I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow. — Mary E. Pearson
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… — William Shakespeare
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver… — Kami Garcia
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over… — Alexandre Dumas
What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart –… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house… — John Steinbeck
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned… — Elizabeth George Speare
Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon… — Nizar Qabbani
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry… — Charles Bukowski
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,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The sparrow flies south for the winter. — Derek Landy
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
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of… — Edwin Way Teale
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a… — Alexander Pope

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