Sparrows Quotes
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Sparrows Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.
— George Herbert
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
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
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 sparrowsno 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
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 wastedIn a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough. — Gary Soto
In spring more mortal singers than belongTo 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
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 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