#sparrows

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#build #cries #forth #leaves #old

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#balcony #calling #edge #farther #flight

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#fall #good #league #out #shout

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. ↗

— Evita Peron

#amongst #flock #great #i #i am

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. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#america #colonial #colonies #crying #fact

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#believe #billions #consensus #demonstration #else

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... ↗

— John Geddes

#boughs #food #nature #poetry #sparrows

And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him. What samurai could hope for more? ↗

— Takashi Matsuoka

#beauty