Thomas Hood Quotes

Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Night
  • Go
  • Bed

• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Like
  • Clear
  • Bed

• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Films
  • Cry
  • Even

• I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Night
  • Me
  • Bed

• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Help
  • Cry
  • Obnoxious

• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Cry
  • Busy

• I always take my make-up off before bed.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Always
  • Take

• With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Understand
  • Looking
  • Bed

• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Accept

• Your cheatin' heart, will make you weep. You'll cry and cry, and try to sleep. But sleep won't come, the whole night through. Your cheatin' heart, will tell on you.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Wish
  • Bed
  • Newspapers

• Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • She
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Giving

• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Men
  • Made
  • Bed

• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Great
  • True
  • Help

• If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Waiting
  • Tree
  • Lonely

• It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • History
  • Faith
  • Action

• If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

  

  Anne Stuart
  • Risk
  • Write

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Their summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; And made him, in the lower air, Tremble - no bigger than a star!

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Peace

• Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Cry
  • Bed