Sparrows Quotes

119 quotes by 105 authors

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. — Benito Mussolini
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. — Evita Peron
Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough. — Gary Soto
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. — William Shakespeare
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). — John Kenneth Galbraith
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I… — Henry David Thoreau
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than… — Peter S. Beagle
I scarcely remember counting upon happinessâ€”I look not for it if it be not in the present hourâ€”nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting… — John Keats
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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,… — Thornton Wilder
I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it. — Tamora Pierce
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and… — George Orwell
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. — Lisa Ann Sandell
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the… — Lisa Ann Sandell
My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings. — Lisa Ann Sandell
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would… — Marcus Aurelius
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

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