Babe Quotes - Page 5

• Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Father, War, Yellow

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?

  Harry Chapin

  Laughter, Pain, Rain

  Song: It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains, Album: Living Room Suite

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• Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

  Harry Chapin

  Nice, Eye, Gun

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

  Harry Chapin

  Pain, Rain, Worry

  Song: Short Stories, Album: Short Stories

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• It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Voice, House, Dumb

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 562, 1895.

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• Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

  George Gascoigne

  Womanly

  George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Men, Records

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• When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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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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  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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• You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Flower, Rejection

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Christmas, Mother, Kings

  Richard Watson Gilder (2013). “The Celestial Passion”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• 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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• Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

  Lou Holtz

  Ruth

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