Hush Quotes
121 quotes by 113 authors
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
— Mark Nepo
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Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush…
— George Gershwin
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I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are…
— Bernardine Dohrn
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now…
— J. C. Hutchins
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The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the…
— Charles Dickens
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
— A. P. Herbert
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And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never…
— Clive Barker
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For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer…
— Edith Wharton
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...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
— Fred Allen
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There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is…
— Winston Churchill
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Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it…
— James Russell Lowell
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The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now,…
— Hal Borland
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
— David Foster Wallace
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I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
— Jimmy Buffett
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You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the…
— Frank Sinatra
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I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or…
— Daniel Handler
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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude…
— George Canning
Who Wrote These Hush Quotes
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