Sparrows famous quotes

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Ubiquity #Sparrows #Found

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
-- Alan Coren

#Bird #Sparrows #Pigeons

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
-- Catullus

#Bird #Sparrows #Birdsong

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
-- Catullus

#Delight #Sparrows

The sparrow flies south for the winter.
-- Derek Landy

#Winter #Sparrows

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
-- Edith Roosevelt

#Boys #Eagles #Sparrows

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
-- Evita Peron

#Sparrows #Flocks

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

#Different #Sparrows #Rats

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
-- Gary Soto

#Hard Work #World #Sparrows

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

#Fans #Sparrows #Hats

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Sparrows #Made #Brandy

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

#Lying #Knowing #Sparrows

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
-- Gladys Taber

#Home #Bird #Sparrows

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
-- Jean Ingelow

#Sorrow #Sparrows #Cry

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
-- John M. Geddes

#Winter #Berries #Sparrows

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Hurt #Sparrows #Rooms

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.
-- Lisa Ann Sandell

#Moon #Sparrows #Moments

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.
-- Lisa Ann Sandell

#Sparrows

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

#Positive #Looks #Sparrows

The sparrow still falls.
-- Mary Doria Russell

#Fall #Sparrows #Stills

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
-- Mary E. Pearson

#Sparrows #Weight #Wonder

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

#America #Rooftops #Sparrows

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

#Summer #Boys #Sparrows

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
-- Will Cuppy

#Eye #Sparrows #Life Is

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

#Fall #Special #Sparrows

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
-- Heather O'Neill

#Singing #Sparrows #Minors

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.
-- John J. Geddes

#Winter #Berries #Sparrows

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...
-- Sharon Jones

#Eye #Watches #Sparrows