Cricket Quotes
363 Cricket quotes by 207 unique authors
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The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then…
— Shannon Hale
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Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion…
— Jenny Downham
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It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
— Libba Bray
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Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the…
— Cynthia Kadohata
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What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms;…
— Melina Marchetta
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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to…
— Dean Koontz
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I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,…
— Bill Bryson
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There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can…
— Michael Jackson
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She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound…
— Lucy Christopher
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his…
— Stephen Fry
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I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and…
— Ann Voskamp
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
— Louisa May Alcott
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We lost the crickets.
— Eoin Colfer
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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the…
— Orson Scott Card
Who Wrote These Cricket Quotes
207 authors contributed a total of 363 Cricket Quotes, led by these top contributors: