Huckleberry Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by… — William Kittredge
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble… — Dorothy Draper
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn. — Andy Borowitz
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the… — Lysander Spooner
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been… — Keith Thibodeaux
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours… — Leslie Fiedler
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the… — Kenzaburo Oe
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill… — Sissy Spacek
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity… — Jane Smiley
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times… — Jane Smiley
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat — John Scalzi
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not… — Robert Vaughan
My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still. — Charlton Heston
Ironically, we were studying 'The Scarlet Letter,' but isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always seems to have a strong… — Easy A

Who Wrote These Huckleberry Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Huckleberry Quotes as follows: