Sparrows Quotes - Page 2

• I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Fall, Perfect

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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• I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.19, Penguin

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• I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

  Gladys Taber

  Home, Bird, Stay At Home

  Gladys Bagg Taber, Barbara Webster (1953). “Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge”

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• One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Boys, Eagles

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• I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nice, Heart, Nests

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1946). “The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)”

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• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Compassion, Feels, Storks

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• I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Dream, Eagles

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fall, Technology, Eagles

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• Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

  William Cartwright

  Smile, Wings, Joy

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• All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  America, United States, Rooftops

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• The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sorry, Tails, Burden

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

  Frances J Roberts

  Children, Heart, Forever

  Frances J. Roberts (2013). “On the Highroad Of Surrender - Updated”, p.156, Barbour Publishing

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• I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Squirrels, Hands

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• I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Christian, Animal, Elephants

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• Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

  Nizar Qabbani

  Grieving, Broken, Pieces

  Nizar Qabbani, “The Epic Of Sadness”

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. 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

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

  Thornton Wilder

  Summer, Boys, Fingers

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

  George Orwell

  Distance, Cat, Animal

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. 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

  Running, People, Different

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

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• The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

  Ann Brashares

  Attitude, Pirate, Problem

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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