Babe Quotes - Page 7

• I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

  Peter Mullan

  Military, Leader, Arbitrary

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Shepherds, Born

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.608

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Book, Voice

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• Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

  William Osler

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.133, Duke University Press

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• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.  You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

  Peter Golenbock

  Character, Opportunity, Purple

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• It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.

  Andrew Symonds

  Hunting, Australia, Pigs

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• A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Heart, Mute

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.2, l.267-8 (published 1850).

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• I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'

  Pete Wentz

  Children, Real, Cartoon

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 19, 2008.

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• God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, God, Christian

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him.

  Alan Redpath

  Jesus, People, Joy

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• The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Ends, Womb

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

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• A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Possibility, Bundles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

  William Blake

  Tears, Eternity

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, May, Littles

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.

  Katherine Marsh

  Men, Affection, Birthright

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• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, College

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• Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Moving, Wind Blowing

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

  Ray Davies

  Art, School, Thinking

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• I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

  Don Henley

  Quality, Picnics, Easy

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• There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.

  Steve Goodman

  Two, Quality, Bars

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• Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

  Tom Petty

  Found You, Lucky, Egotism

  Song: You Got Lucky

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  I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.

  Avril Lavigne

  Looks, Warning, Faces

  Song: Too Much To Ask, Album: Let Go, 2002

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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