quotes about Sparrows
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
-- Alan Coren -
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
-- Catullus -
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
-- Catullus -
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One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
-- Edith Roosevelt -
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
-- Evita Peron -
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
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Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
-- Gary Soto -
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
-- Georgette Heyer -
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
-- Gladys TaberSource : Gladys Bagg Taber, Barbara Webster (1953). “Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge”
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
-- Jean IngelowSource : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19
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...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
-- John M. Geddes -
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
-- Laurie Halse AndersonSource : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan
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And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.
-- Lisa Ann Sandell -
My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.
-- Lisa Ann Sandell -
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The sparrow still falls.
-- Mary Doria RussellSource : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
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I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
-- Mary E. PearsonSource : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.265, Macmillan
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All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
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, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
-- Thornton Wilder -
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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 it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
-- William Shakespeare -
Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
-- Heather O'Neill -
The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.
-- John J. Geddes -
God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...
-- Sharon JonesSource : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 28, 2016.
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