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

  • It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

    Hurt   Sparrows   Rooms  
    Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Father   Lying   Fall  
    Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.236
  • Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

    Alive   May   Sparrows  
  • Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

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

  • It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

    Fall   Brain   Cracks  
    James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.129, Random House
  • As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

    Father   Fall   Humility  
  • To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

    Eye   Sparrows   Life Is  
    Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher
  • I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.

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

    Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster
  • On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

    Snow   Important   Steel  
  • Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

    Horse   Oats   Sides  
    "Recession Economics". New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1, February 04, 1982.
  • 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.'

    Fans   Sparrows   Hats  
    "Capt. Barbossa’s back: An interview with Geoffrey Rush". Associated Press Interview, www.ocregister.com. May 23, 2007.
  • In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

    Song   Spring   Robins  
    Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • 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.

    Fall   House   Naked  
  • The sparrow still falls.

    Fall   Sparrows   Stills  
    Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
  • I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

    Eagles   Hands   Broken  
    Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.1563, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)
  • Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

    Lying   Valentine   Fall  
    John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

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

    Sorry   Tails   Sparrows  
    Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
  • God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

  • Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

    Doors   Tree   Waiting  
    Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr
  • When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrow’s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.

    Believe   Fall   Mean  
    Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.6, University of Nevada Press
  • The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!

    Real   Two   House  
  • 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?

    Yellow   Car   Earth  
    James Lee Burke (2011). “A Billy Bob and Hackberry Holland Ebook Boxed Set: In the Moon of Red Ponies, Rain Gods, Excerpt from Feast Day of Fools”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
  • The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

    Wall   Fall   Media  
  • 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.

    Blue   Escaping   Color  
  • 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.

  • If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

    Horse   Oats   Sparrows  
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