Pippin Quotes

• No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Despair, Legs

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.749, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Believe, Young, Grows

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• We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Legs, May, Knees

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.749, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Names

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• That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Party, Together, Sticks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast? [Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.] Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he? Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Gentleman, Tea

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• Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
  Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
  Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
  Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
  Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.
  Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Rain, Journey

  "Fictional characters: Pippin, Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Journey, Glasses

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Gay, Laughing, Joy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Heaven, Answers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Short cuts make long delays.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Long, Delay

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Party, Journey, Nuisance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Journey, Path, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Mind, Painting

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

  Horace Pippin

  Hard Times, Men, Paint

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• To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

  Billy Boyd

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The war brought out all the art in me.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, War

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• My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Men, Should Have

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• The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

  Jane Grigson

  Men, Apples, Orange

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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• Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Sadness, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.549, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Noses, Invisible, Riders

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• Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Horse, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.411, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan

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