Sparrows Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Made, Brandy, Ifs

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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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• 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

  Real, Two, House

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

  Rob Brezsny

  Weed, Nature, Kissing

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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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• Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Moving, Men, Islands

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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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• Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Fall, Autumn, Spain

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

  John Donne

  Lying, Valentine, Fall

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

  James Lee Burke

  Yellow, Car, Earth

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Billy Bob and Hackberry Holland Ebook Boxed Set: In the Moon of Red Ponies, Rain Gods, Excerpt from Feast Day of Fools”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

  Steven Moffat

  People, Nightingales, Doctor Who

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• Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.158, Penguin

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• 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

  Children, Fall, Compassion

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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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• 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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