Quotes About Sparrow

a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Some might think that ten in the morning was a little early to indulge in strong liquor, but Sharky wasn't one of them. He liked a drink, did Sharky, preferably one that lasted from sparrow fart to sack time.

It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall

Who said "Peacock Pie"?The old king to the sparrow:Who said "Crops are ripe"?Rust to the harrow.

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

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

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.

seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

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

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.

Like the sparrow, I've got a song to sing. Unlike the sparrow, I must sing mine by faith.

I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

Don't blame the sparrow, it is your wickedness which has at last met with its reward. I only hope this may be a lesson to you in the future!