Children Quote by George MacDonald

“O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove,…

— Frederick Buechner

“Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.”

— Margaret Wise Brown

“She told me she'd chosen something for the headstone, part of a verse from Psalm eighty-four- 'Yea, the sparrow hath found an house.' I…

— Tracy Guzeman

“We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness.…

— William Shakespeare

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I weep and…

— Tana French

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

“Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the…

— Jessica Bates

“They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the…

— Kathryn Lasky

“Lord, thy children are jaded, and their ears go flat with sound. Marveling in the thunder rumbling of thy voice no longer - they…

— Sylvia Plath