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How to use the word sparrow in a Sentence?

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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?

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
3 months ago

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

I saw a courtroom packed full of Captain Jack Sparrow fans who were vocal, energized. This was the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through. I’ve never felt more removed from my own humanity. I felt less than human.

– Savannah Guthrie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I saw a courtroom packed full of Captain Jack Sparrow fans who were vocal, energized, this was the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through. I’ve never felt more removed from my own humanity. I felt less than human.

– Amber Heard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
6 years ago

He's like a family member - he's very comforting. It's fun, coming home to a sparrow, my grandchildren have grown up, and there's none who are still small, so I don't know how to say it clearly, but he's like a family member.

– Resident Yoshiko Fujino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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.

– Alfred A. Montapert

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

– Anouk Aimee

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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