Lullaby Quotes
75 quotes by 65 authors
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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
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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
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Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
— Robert Herrick
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
— Robert Breault
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
— John Cage
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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
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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
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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
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In 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
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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
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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
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
— Langston Hughes
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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
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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
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And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,…
— Carl Sandburg
Who Wrote These Lullaby Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 75 Lullaby Quotes, led by these top contributors: