Sparrows Quotes
119 quotes by 105 authors
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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
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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
— John Steinbeck
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
— Nick Cave
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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
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Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
— Steven Moffat
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But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
— Walter Dean Myers
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I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
— Mary E. Pearson
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He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready…
— Connie Willis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.
— Truman Capote
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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
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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
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It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and…
— John Donne
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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 Wrote These Sparrows Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 119 Sparrows Quotes, led by these top contributors: