Lullaby Quotes

75 quotes by 65 authors

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but… — George Shearing
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down.… — Langston Hughes
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her. — Robert Herrick
Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be… — Rachel Billington
There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby;… — Brooke Fraser
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. — Robert Breault
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. — John Cage
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land… — Lewis H. Lapham
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home. — Glenda Millard
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the… — Adrienne Rich
InÂ Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of… — Heather O'Neill
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be — Billy Joel
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes… — A Fine Frenzy
Let the rain sing you a lullaby. — Langston Hughes
His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his,… — Sarah Rees Brennan
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost,… — Stephan Jenkins
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release â€” out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg

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