Sparrows Quotes - Page 6

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

  Catullus

  Delight

  Carmina no. 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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