Bats Quote by Ian Fleming

“The bats inebriate the sky . . .”

— A. E. Stallings

“At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day…”

— Anne Sexton

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all…

— Charles Dickens

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,…

— John Gay

“Later that afternoon, the girls sat on the porch, bored and worried. It was good that they didn't find any dead bats, but why…

— Pamela McDowell

“Already it is twilight down in the Laredito. Bats fly forth from their roostings in courthouse and tower and circle the quarter. The air…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey,…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other…

— Stephen King

“That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives…

— Ishmael Beah

“For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned…

— Natalie Babbitt

“The creatures came up the stairs a few at a time, pausing to sit up and sniff the air. Their eyes glinted in the…

— Jonathan Blum