Sparrows Quotes

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

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

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

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.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

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.

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

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

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

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

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

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

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

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

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

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