Sparrows Quotes - Page 5

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Rooms, Tiny

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

  Connie Willis

  War, Home, Sacrifice

  Connie Willis (2010). “All Clear”, p.635, Spectra

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

  Gary Soto

  Hard Work, World, Enough

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• Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Sea, Shoes

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Laughing, Magic, Singing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

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• I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Idiot, Kind, Swear

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.736, Random House Books for Young Readers

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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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• The sparrow still falls.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Fall, Stills

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

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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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• It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Different, Rats, Made

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Prayer, Moving

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• In the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves.

  Tom Franklin

  Dog, Squirrels, Blue

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• I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fall, House, Naked

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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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• . . . 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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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

  Anouk Aimee

  Death, Children, Moving

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