Quotes by category:Robins

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

A. A. Milne

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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

A. A. Milne

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Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

A. A. Milne

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Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

A. A. Milne

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Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

A. A. Milne

stories house robins

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

A. A. Milne

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The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Ali Smith

goodman robins

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

Anne Lamott

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If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

Baldur von Schirach

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Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.

Barack Obama

nannies doctors robins

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Bear Grylls

baptists growing-up robins

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

Billy West

performances voice robins

Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it might be something to do with those woodlanders. Now, I'm to say nothing to Fortunata or Ashleg... 'I must tell the Queen that a robin has seen Cludd hanging about. No, that's not right. I must tellt he robin taht Cludd has been hanging the Queen.

Brian Jacques

queens robins thinking

Bonnie and Clyde, while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

Bryan Burrough

killers white robins

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

Burt Ward

robins kids book

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Carl Icahn

robin-hood enjoy robins

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

Charles Keating, Jr.

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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Chris Cooper

dry robins thinking

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Claude Rains

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This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Clementa C. Pinckney

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