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• On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.

  Robert Brustein

  Eye, Circles, Ideas

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• ... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Attitude, Believe

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• Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
  And awaken'd the witty and fair;
  The boarding-school belle's in a flutter,
  The twopenny post's in despair;
  The breath of the morning is flinging
  A magic on blossom and spray,
  And cockneys and sparrows are singing
  In chorus on Valentine's day.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Witty, Morning, Valentine

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• And in thy own sermon, thou
  That the sparrow falls dost allow,
  It shall not cause me any alarm;
  For neither so comes the bird to harm,
  Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
  Is by the sparrow's dying bed;
  Therefore it is a blessed place,
  And the sparrow in high grace.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Blessed, Fall

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.549, e-artnow

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

  Sharon Jones

  Eye, Watches, Knows

  "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 28, 2016.

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• A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?

  Zicheng Hong

  Hunting, Ducks, Taoism

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• I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the service without her [grandmother] calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up

  Brooke Valentine

  Eye, Sunday, Grandmother

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• 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

  Arms, Looking Forward, Lord

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• One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eagles, Doe, Hundred

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• I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

  Stephen King

  Karma, Ideas, Ants

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  God, Religious, Cancer

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• [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

  Goodbye, Mean, Kids

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• Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Lying, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.236

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• 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

  Children, Believe, Here I Am

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Robert Frost

  Song, Spring, Robins

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lucky, Genius, Now And Then

  Samuel Johnson (1803). “The Lives of the Most Prominent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.175

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.

  George Herbert

  Agreement, Two, Ears

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

  Joyce Cary

  Eye, People, Bird

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• Death devours all lovely things;
  Lesbia with her sparrow
  Shares the darkness--presently
  Every bed is narrow.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Death, Darkness, Lovely

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• . . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow.

  James McCudden

  Dark, Sky, Long

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.85, Casemate / Greenhill

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• In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Children, Fall, Heart

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• The sparrow still falls.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Fall, Stills

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.

  Lauren Oliver

  New Horizons, Dew, Rooftops

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Sorrow, Doe, Looks

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2008). “Song of the Sparrow”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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