Top 120 Sparrow Quotes & Sayings

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

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

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

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

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.

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

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

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.

Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

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

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.

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

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

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

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

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?

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

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.

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?

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.'

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

And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed; Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.

Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

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.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

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

Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

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

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

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

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

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

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

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

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.

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.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

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.

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

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

The sparrow still falls.

On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

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

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

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

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...