Sparrow Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sparrow quotes, sparrow sayings, and sparrow proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Better a sparrow in the hand than two flyings. Portuguese Proverb
Even a bird chooses a sturdy branch before alighting. Korean Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb
It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does...because the sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow, both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts. Robert A. Heinlein
At this season the sparrows are particularly conspicuous because they are in love—and love addles any creature and makes him noisy. E.B. White
Many people assume that it is a variation on a cheapie, implying a cheap woman, a woman whose virtue is cheaply bought; more likely, however, the word derives from the chipping sparrow, the commonest form of sparrow found in American cities. Alan Axelrod
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. Henry David Thoreau
An old proverb says, / That bird is not honest that filleth his own nest. John Skelton
His eye is on the sparrow / And I know He watches me. Civilla Durfee Martin
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 than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau
Yeah, the sparrow hath found her a house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young; even thy altars. O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. Psalm 84:3
Saw himself like a sparrow on the Bank-top; sitting on the wherewithal for a thousand, thousand meals and dropping dead from hunger the first day of winter. Christina Stead
A word flies away like a sparrow and returns to the house like a crow. German Proverb
A word which flew out of the mouth like a sparrow cannot be drawn back, even by four horses. Czech Proverb
I feel the coldness of my heart / the heaviness of the day / I see the sparrow fly so far / and watch her float away / She frees me as I watch her / into the endless horizon she goes. Jeanne Fiedler
The little sparrow / on the wire shuts its eyes / while life dims and dies. Wallace Dean LaBenne
Bright angel on a sparrow, / Spreading magic love and joy, / Let your heart gulp and swallow, / And spread true mystic woo! Susanne C. Goudreau
We're each single thread woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing. Francine Rivers
As there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow, Similarly, there is a special providence in the fall of a HERO! Md. Ziaul Haque
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons. Alan Coren
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
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... John M. Geddes
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. Lisa Ann Sandell
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
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. Joan Didion
See that falcon? Hear those white-throated sparrows? Smell that skunk? Well, the falcon takes the sky, the white-throated sparrow takes the low bushes, the skunk takes the earth ... I take the woods. Jean Craighead George
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiots when we did it. Tamora Pierce
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. Wallace Stevens
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us. - Author: Hannah Whitall Smith