Hummed Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said…
— Ronald Reagan
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To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the…
— Jon Krakauer
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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for…
— Temple Grandin
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When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a…
— Kim Harrison
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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the…
— Jodi Picoult
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At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said…
— A A Milne
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But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was…
— Edward Eager
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I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined,…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they…
— Mark Helprin
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Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!†This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko’s blinding light. “Why would…
— Marissa Meyer
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Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us... Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed... When we die,…
— Kazuya Minekura
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Thinks there is nothing wrong with dancing to your own tune... even if it is being hummed by the voices in your head.
— Nishan Panwar
Who Wrote These Hummed Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Hummed Quotes as follows: