74 Sparrow Quotes
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Famous Sparrow Quotes
Better a sparrow in hand than a pigeon on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
It’s better to have a sparrow in one’s hand than a dove on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. — Evita Peron
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. — Jean Ingelow
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. — Don Williams
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. — William Shakespeare
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of the sparrow — Greek Proverbs
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? — Alexander Pope
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. — William Shakespeare
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
A good bird begins chirping while in the egg — Greek Proverbs
A small bird builds its nest big enough for itself. — Thai Proverbs
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can’t catch it. — Russian Proverbs
Short Sparrow Quotes
- Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate — Johnny Depp
- A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
- The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. — Benito Mussolini
- Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. — Catullus
- I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound. — David Letterman
- The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows. — John J. Geddes
- To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows. — Will Cuppy
- The sparrow flies south for the winter. — Derek Landy
- And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. — Lisa Ann Sandell
Jack Sparrow Quotes
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin — Ann Brashares
Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all. — Johnny Depp
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
[Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids....I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done. — Johnny Depp
People Writing About Sparrow
More Sparrow Quotes
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. — Eric Berne
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. — Henry David Thoreau
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all. — John Burroughs
When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrow’s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts. — Sarah Winnemucca
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. — Carl Sagan
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. — Alfred A. Montapert
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! — William Cartwright
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. — Diane Wakoski
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
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. — John Ruskin
There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear. — Kami Garcia
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
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
I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. — Todd Rundgren
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. — Anouk Aimee
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children. — Thomas S. Monson
Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness! — Frances J Roberts
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him — Kenneth Wapnick
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame. — Jewel
Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. — Frederick Lenz
If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me. — Sharon Jones
The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright. — Fritz Leiber
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