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Letter "T" » The Sparrow
«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.»
«Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh»
Author: Burmese Proverb
| Keywords:
emulate, emulates, emulating, peacocks, Sparrows, The Sparrow, thigh, thighs
«People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.»
Author: Edward Jeffrey
| About:
People
| Keywords:
canary, canary bird, clergy, eagle, friendliness, owl, sparrow, swan, Swans, The Owl, The Sparrow, The Swan
«The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
affairs, convincing, Empire, governs, man of affairs, notice, probable, proofs, See of, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow
«WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.Should you ask me whence this laughter, Whence this audible big-smiling, With its labial extension, With its maxillar distortion And its diaphragmic rhythmus Like the billowing of an ocean, Like the shaking of a carpet, I should answer, I should tell you: From the great deeps of the spirit, From the unplummeted abysmus Of the soul this laughter welleth As the fountain, the gug-guggle, Like the river from the canon [sic], To entoken and give warning That my present mood is sunny. Should you ask me further question -- Why the great deeps of the spirit, Why the unplummeted abysmus Of the soule extrudes this laughter, This all audible big-smiling, I should answer, I should tell you With a white heart, tumpitumpy, With a true tongue, honest Injun: William Bryan, he has Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah!Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank, Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep, Standing silent in the kneedeep With his wing-tips crossed behind him And his neck close-reefed before him, With his bill, his william, buried In the down upon his bosom, With his head retracted inly, While his shoulders overlook it? Does the sandhill crane, the shankank, Shiver grayly in the north wind, Wishing he had died when little, As the sparrow, the chipchip, does? No 'tis not the Shankank standing, Standing in the gray and dismal Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep. No, 'tis peerless William Bryan Realizing that he's Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah!»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, circumstance, distinguished, epaulet, epaulets, hoe, hoed, hoeing, shoulder, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow, village, worn
«Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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boy, catch, Catch A, chirp, howl, howled, howls, insane, rat, sparrow, Sparrows, The Howling, The Sparrow, trout, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.»
«The sparrow-hawk loves the rainwater, falling in torrents; the king loves to see his wealth on display.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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display, rainwater, sparrow, sparrow hawk, The Sparrow, torrents
«There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Providence
| Keywords:
providence, sparrow, Sparrows, The Fall, The Sparrow
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