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I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it. — Tamora Pierce

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped — Lauren Oliver

Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

Live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer. — Ruskin Bond

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. — Benito Mussolini

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

It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows. — Edith Hamilton

That I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard. — Ruth Downie

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me — Nick Cave

Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. — George Herbert

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

Before taking his leave of a premises, the dustman would request either beer or a tip for his trouble, quaintly known in the trade as 'sparrows'. — Lee Jackson

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

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

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries. — Michael Ruhlman

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

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

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

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. — Rob Brezsny

On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average. — Will Cuppy

Hey sparrows
no pissing on my old
winter quilt! — Kobayashi Issa

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

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

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. — Truman Capote

Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion. — Emmuska Orczy

Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134) — Holly Black

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

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

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

In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng ... — Robert Frost

...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. — Paula Hawkins

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow. — Marcel Proust

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau

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

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts! — Henry Van Dyke

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair. — Martin Luther

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

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

There's something in the Bible about falling sparrows,' Kevin said. 'About his eye being on them. That's what's wrong with God: he only has one eye. — Philip K. Dick

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. — Bjork

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt

thinking of us, our struggles and pain, grieves in me a song more dismal than the sparrows' protest to the morning rain — John J. Geddes

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

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way. — Tanya Tucker