Quote by Walter Tevis Download Open image ““Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.”” — Walter Tevis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.” — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.” — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“A hush in the trees. Just the rustle of leaves in the breeze. But no birds, mockingjay or other. Peeta’s right. They do fall… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I thought of To Kill a Mockingbird. I had finished reading it one night in a bunker, my knees bent and hunched together while… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.” — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs,… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“She slowly began to hum her personal favorite,not even realizing when instinctively she began to sing the lyrics:"hush,little baby,don't say a word.If that mockingbird don't sing,papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.If that diamond ring don't" "Do me a favor.Pretend you're that mockingbird and shut up" one angry,bloodshot eye glared at her. "I was just trying to help" "Help what?… — Jill Barnett Copy Share
“For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse."… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
