| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30482 |
| QUOTATION: | God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James (b. 1920), British mystery writer. Jonah the tramp, in Devices and Desires, ch. 40 (1989).
Quoting a wayside pulpit. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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