30 quotes found
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
“Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not”
“They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.”
“You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?”
“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not ...”
“There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no b...”
“Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.”
“This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would ...”
“Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is t...”
“You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.”
“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is cle...”
“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
“At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be...”
“I'm sick and tired of it," he said, "It's the same all the time. 'These are my claws, so this is my cowslip." 'These are my teeth, so this is my burrow.' I'll tell you, if I ever get into the Owsla...”
“Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly,he nds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the worldreappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful pro...”
“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reach...”
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other ...”
