Sparrows Quotes - Page 4

• My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Flicker

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• I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Weight, Wonder

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.265, Macmillan

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• One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.

  Mark Haddon

  Prayer, Believe, Fall

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• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Gentleman, Wicked

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• The sparrow flies south for the winter.

  Derek Landy

  Winter, Skulduggery Pleasant, South

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• Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Taken, Laughing

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Pirate, Curse

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• 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

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Glee

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.

  Carlos Dengler

  New York, Squirrels, Tree

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
  At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
  His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
  Loses them too; then down he throws
  The coral of his lips, the rose
  Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
  With these, the crystal of his brow,
  And then the dimple of his chin:
  All these did my Campaspe win.
  At last he set her both his eyes -
  She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
  O Love! has she done this for thee?
  What shall, alas! become of me?

  John Lyly

  Love, Mother, Team

  John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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• 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

  Snow, Important, Steel

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• 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

  Book, Numbers, Long

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• I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

  William H. Gass

  Voice, Wire, Connections

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.191, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

  Rob Brezsny

  Weed, Nature, Kissing

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

  Catullus

  Delight

  Carmina no. 3

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• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Eye, Rights, Democracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.284, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Fans, Hats, Berserk

  "Capt. Barbossa’s back: An interview with Geoffrey Rush". Associated Press Interview, www.ocregister.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  A. O. Scott

  Pigs, Eagles, Bird

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• 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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, World, Littles

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.216, Broadview Press

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• You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Feels

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.227, Vintage

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• 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

  Blue, Escaping, Color

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• The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Black And White, Past

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• What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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