Sparrows Quotes

• Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Inspirational Life, Looks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Animal, Garden

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

  Lauren Oliver

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2011.

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• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

  Evita Peron

  Flocks

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• To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

  Will Cuppy

  Eye, Life Is, Seeing

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

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• When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sorrow, Cry, Break

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19

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• Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

  Heather O'Neill

  Singing, Minors

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• Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

  Catullus

  Bird, Birdsong

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• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Firsts

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

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• Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Happiness, God, Eye

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

  Tanya Tucker

  Expression, Two, Trying

  Song: Two Sparrows In A Hurricane

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• A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Ubiquity, Found, Certain

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• If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Eagles, Ifs

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• And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Moon, Moments, That Moment

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• All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

  Alan Coren

  Bird, Pigeons, Knows

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• When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Destiny, Wind

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

  Johnny Depp

  Pirate, Gold, Treasure

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• Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Humanity

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• When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

  Don Williams

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Heart

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• Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Dream, Eagles, Wings

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• If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fall, Compassion, Care

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• Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Free Will

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

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