Old songs Quote by Beatrix Potter

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was…

— Emily Brontë

“Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora's youth;…

— Charles Dickens

“...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the…

— John Geddes

Silver bells, silver bells, It's Christmas time in the city.

— Ray Evans

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol…

— Meredith Willson

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

— Charles Lamb

“That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...in the old days, silvery bells would often sound just as some Englishman or Englishwoman of particular virtue or beauty was about to be…

— Susanna Clarke

“The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower; And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered…

— Hart Crane

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

“The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its…

— Charles Dickens