Bats Quote by A. E. Stallings

“At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day…”

— Anne Sexton

“I'm a bat, want to see me fly?”

— Alex Flinn

“We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down”

— David Almond

“at least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats.”

— Karen Shanor

“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed…

— Ian Fleming

“When the dark clouds flutter like bats in my head I wish I could open a window and release them.”

— Frank McCourt

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,…

— John Gay

“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows them over…

— Richard Jackson

“He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Outside, the air filled with cricket noise, as the sun reddened in its descent.”

— R.J. Lawrence

“Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.”

— Don Roff

“The flies have conquered the flypaper.”

— John Steinbeck