Owls Quotes
48 quotes by 39 authors
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Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
— William Shakespeare
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think…
— Terry Goodkind
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on…
— Truman Capote
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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
— T.H. White
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We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields –…
— Dodie Smith
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
— Alan Garner
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I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants…
— Matt Groening
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Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We…
— Kathryn Lasky
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We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly…
— Kathryn Lasky
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When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and…
— Alice Hoffman
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Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The owls are gathering; find out why soon.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.
— Darren Shan
Who Wrote These Owls Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 48 Owls Quotes, led by these top contributors: