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"If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing." »Eric Berne
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"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." »Anouk Aimee
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"I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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." »Henry David Thoreau
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"On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"What will a child learn sooner than a song?" »Alexander Pope
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." »Unknown
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"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME." »Shirley MacLaine
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." »Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself." »Maya Angelou
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania." »Dorothy Parker
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