Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail…

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

— Bob Dylan

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

— George Herbert

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait…

— Alain de Botton

“Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the…

— Paolo Giordano

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

— Don McLean

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

— George Herbert

“New Rule: Churches have to stop ringing the damn bells. It was a good idea in the Middle Ages, but people have clocks now.…

— Bill Maher

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells…

— Van Morrison

It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not…

— Paul Engle

And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've…

— Andy Partridge