Battle Quote by Robert Jordan

“So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear, they crushed out your throat the terrible…

— Judith Wright

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

— Robertson Davies

Song is the heroics of speech.

— Thomas Carlyle

“It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels…

— Christopher Moore

“At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without…

— William Beckford

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

— George R. R. Martin

“The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Demon or bird! (said the boy’s soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it mostly to me? For I, that…

— Walt Whitman

Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone? Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own? Who will…

— Antwone Fisher

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

— Rod Stewart

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but…

— Franz Kafka

“The song of Lúthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful that ever…

— J.R.R. Tolkien