Birds Quote by Will Cuppy Download Open image ““The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.”” — Will Cuppy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birds Humor Ornithology
“If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow. It’s everybody,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.” — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.” — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“What can I possibly be hiding in a heart that's still the size of a tiny sparrow?” — Kim Dong Hwa Copy Share Image
“Small things and great occur; a tooth falls from the mouth, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Are not two sparrows sold for only a penny? But not one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing it.” — Holy Bible Matthew 10 29 Copy Share Image
“Don't blame the sparrow, it is your wickedness which has at last met with its reward. I only hope this may be a lesson… — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the sparrow felt tired, sometimes he even felt like giving up, but that was when he spoke the happiest.” — Michael James Payne Copy Share Image
“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there was to it. To show her subjects that she was properly qualified, Hatshepsut set up many statues and portraits representing herself as a regular male Pharaoh with a beard. This fooled nobody, but it was legal proof because… — Will Cuppy Copy Share
“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at… — Will Cuppy Copy Share
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?"… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew and Mary, Fletching, where de Montfort had prayed and Gibbon now sleeps out a sceptic’s eternity. The Sussex Weald is quiet now, its bows and bowmen that did affright the air at Agincourt long dust. A… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share
I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world. — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
“It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image