H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He broke through the barriers of the skies.”
“He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box." "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.”
Source: Sample of the CITYs
“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.”
Source: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
“He brought a kind of light into her life
The kind of light she never knew existed
Just his aura
So captivating”
“He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.”
“He brought color into my life. Acrylic? Oil? It didn't even matter. He always thought of himself as blackness, but the truth was, he injected so many different pigments into my existence.”
Source: Vicious
“He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.”
“He brought in five hundred dollars jammed up his back porch, but somehow that graymeat son of a bitch managed to bring in something else as well. A sense of his own worth, maybe, or a feeling that he would be the winner in the end ... or maybe it was only a sense of freedom, even inside these goddamned grey walls. It was a kind of inner light he carried around with him.”
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“He brought my hand to his lips and pressed a warm kiss on my fingers. “He wouldn’t want you to suffer for him, you know.”
“He wouldn’t like you being the one to comfort me, either.”
He grinned at that. “No. Indeed he wouldn’t”
“He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“He brought up both hands to hold my face. "I would die for you, Isabelle."
"No." I shook my head. "Live for me.”
Source: New Moon
“He brought up her old scars again, and now he couldn’t leave them on the shelf like books to gather dust.”
Source: The Name of Red
“He brushed a fingertip over his lips and signalled across the room. "Now I’m going to take you home." But it meant something else, too. Grania’s cheeks reddened furiously when he made this public-private display, though no one else had noticed.”
Source: Deafening
“He brushed a kiss to my brow, 'Ianthe sold out your sisters,' he said, his voice turning sharp and hard. 'It's only fitting that you use her to get Elain back.'
He gripped the sides of my face, bringing us nose to nose.
'Do not get distracted. Do not linger. You are a warrior, and warriors know when to pick their fights.'
I nodded, our breath mingling.
Rhys growled. 'They took what is ours. And we do not allow these crimes to go unpunished.'
His power rippled and swirled around me.
'You do not fear,' Rhys breathed. 'You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.'
I nodded again, holding his stare.
'Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.'
He kissed my brow one more time, my blood thrumming and boiling in me, howling to draw blood.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“He brushed his lips over hers, and this time his kiss was a bit more heated than the last. She clutched onto him, deepening it until he pulled back.
He groaned, simmering heat in his gaze. "Let's get you in the bath before I lose my head."
"Maybe after the bath you can lose it.”
Source: Sworn to Protect
“He brushed his thumb across her lips. “I guess you're not as easy to forget as we'd hoped.”
Source: Enshadowed
“He brushed my curls back off my face. “I never pictured my life so complete. I never thought I’d have everything I want. You’re everything to me, Angel.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale
“He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?”
Source: Easy
“He built a fort around, making it impossible for anyone to go near him. And he sat near the window watching her dance in the rain, with someone else.”
“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!”
Source: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.”
Source: Howards End: England Literature
“he buired his face in his hands and did not speak. i held him and whispered all the bits of broken comfort i could find.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“He buried his face in her hair, inhaling deeply. "How is it I smell like goose shit and cheap whiskey, and you smell like you just ran through a meadow of wildflowers?"
"Ruthlessness."
He breathed in again. "What is that scent? It reminds me of something, but I can't place what."
"The last child you tried to eat?"
"That must be it.”
Source: King of Scars
“He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.”
Source: Heather and Velvet
“He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as a sensible young man in his position ought to have done.”
Source: The History of Mr. Polly
“He buries gold who hides the truth.”
“He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“He burped. It was strange how shocking it was to realise that Ryan Bailey was a human being in a human body that generated gas.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.”
Source: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
“He burst out laughing. “You look like a warm shade of Frosty the Snowman! It’s all over your cheeks and nose.”
I snorted and rolled my eyes. “Oh yeah?” I swiped my finger along the inside of the icing bowl and tapped his nose. “Well you look like Rudolph.”
Source: Christmas Wishes
“He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week.”
Source: The Man Who Died Twice
“He: Cabbage is disgusting.
She: Oh?
He: Yeh! Gross stuff.Can't stand it. I haven't had it since I was a kid.
She: Oh?
*She is silent as he eats his hot-dog with sauerkraut and coleslaw.
Judge not the cabbage for it has many forms.
Judge not the person for they have many aspects.”
“He [Cade] promises to make England great again. How will he do that? He shows the crowd at once: he attacks education.”
Source: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
“He called for a remount, and changed horses while I gently swelled with pride. I had never craved officer rank, particularly, but it was something to be rewarded for my efforts, and to know I still basked in the general's favour.”
Source: Flame of the West
“He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.”
“He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“He called her a MILF, which must be offensive because Miss Castle called him a thug and sent hit out of the room. Gabe, what is a MILF?”- Bethany”
“He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides”
Source: The queen of wands: poetry
“He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!”
Source: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart
“He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did.”
Source: The Chosen and the Beautiful
“He called me crazy. A few times too many. To the point where I buckled thinking I was crazy. You can label me. You can yell at me. You can hurt me, but I’ll figure it out. I’ll run with the labels. I’ll run with the hurt. I’ll own it. I’ll love it. I’ll live with it knowing there was no real justification for any of it. Sticks and stones may break my bones, your words were always the hardest, but I got it. I’m here. Not there, but here. Not being, but becoming.”
“He called me out in front of everyone and said sing- ‘One of these things is not like the other.’ That song is from the show Sesame Street if you do not know.'
'Nevaeh, can you see what is different? Along with Nevaeh, do you not see what you did? Then just after saying that he said. What did you do?’ Mr. DeVolcano said.
'He is contemptuously speaking down to me; he was trying to belittle my intelligence. I thought at the time, what is next, are you going to dance down the hall, while clicking your pointed-up feet together, and say- 'Nevaeh sucks, Nevaeh sucks!'
'Therefore, at that moment, I just said photocopy it, and that pissed him off; I would like to say to him to stop wasting my time.”
Source: Nevaeh Book 1
“He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“He called to her primal side; the ancient aspect of her animal self that wanted to submit. It wanted to submit to him; to sacrifice all of who she was at the altar of his maleness and lay herself bare for his taking.”
Source: Releasing The Wolf
“He called you beautiful, for a black girl and you kissed him. It would not be the last time someone would pay you a provisional compliment, nor the last time you accept it. Back then, you had not yet realized, that those who view your beauty conditionally, undoubtedly felt the same towards your humanity.”
Source: Meet Me at the Intersection
“He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.”