Sparrows Quotes
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Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
Gary Soto -
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
Geoffrey Rush -
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 -
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
Catullus -
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
Edith Roosevelt
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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 -
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
Catullus -
Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
Heather O'Neill -
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me...
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.
Ethel Waters