Folk songs Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Because the dog was after her, Poor Cat Fright. As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty, There I met a…

— Harrison Weir

“He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.”

— Michael Cunningham

“There was something sly about his smile, his eyes so black and sharp, his rufous hair. Something that sent her early to their trysting…

— Neil Gaiman

“I don't know," Valerius said. " I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“My mother hums a haunting melody, one that I think she made up. She used to sing it to us when she was in…

— Susan Ee

“The lullaby had the kind of tune everyone thinks they've heard before but can't remember where. A tune like that floats in the air…

— Kathleen Winter

“Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and…

— William Wordsworth

“The witch approached it and pared its edges with a sword that she drew from her thigh. Then she sat down beside it on…

— Lord Dunsany

“She was heading for the piano, and something told me that it was her intention to sing old folk songs, a pastime to which,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen…

— William Shakespeare

“I don’t agree. The morning fog makes the graveyard beautiful, soft and sad as a voice humming a lullaby, but I don’t tell her…

— Rita Stradling

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.…

— Roger McGuinn