House Sparrows

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or sparrows:

    This is the rat
    That ate the malt
    That lay in the house that Jack built.
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 4–6)

    It seemed as if the breezes brought him,
    It seemed as if the sparrows taught him,
    As if by secret sign he knew
    Where in far fields the orchids grew.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)