Sparrows Quotes
119 quotes by 105 authors
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or…
— Eric Berne
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
— Don Williams
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted…
— William Butler Yeats
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.…
— Christopher Cokinos
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. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown…
— James McCudden
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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 generation…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
— Heather O'Neill
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
— Anouk Aimee
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
— Gladys Taber
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
— Jean Ingelow
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I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!
— Jack Handey
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Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I…
— Jack Handey
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is…
— John Ruskin
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...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
— John M. Geddes
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I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering…
— Melina Mercouri
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Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter…
— William Cartwright
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I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the…
— Joan Didion
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
— Alan Coren
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