H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was the one who told me a man is not made by his mistakes. He's made by what he does about them.”
Source: Shouting at the Rain
“He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.”
“He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.”
“He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“He was the only person making his way into the city; he met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing, and every one of them seemed to be hurt in some way. The eyebrows of some were burned off and skin hung from their faces and hands. Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something in both hands. Some were vomiting as they walked. Many were naked or in shreds of clothing. On some undressed bodies, the burns had made patterns—of undershirt straps and suspenders and, on the skin of some women (since white repelled the heat from the bomb and dark clothes absorbed it and conducted it to the skin), the shapes of flowers they had had on their kimonos. Many, although injured themselves, supported relatives who were worse off. Almost all had their heads bowed, looked straight ahead, were silent, and showed no expression whatsoever.”
Source: Hiroshima
“He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.”
Source: Mule
“He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.”
“He was the perfect man, perfect lover, perfect friend, the perfect fairytale. And if she didn’t keep that to herself for a while longer, he’d be the perfect heartbreak when he took off for Maine again.”
Source: Brook of Mainehattan
“He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place to buy him a little more time in the world, I'd have done it. I'm sorry I couldn't.”
Source: Something like Normal
“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“He was the quiet after the storm.”
“He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.”
Source: The Powers That Be
“He was the real deal, like my very own Clark Gable character from a classic film. But, unlike Mr. Gable, Colin really did “give a–”
Source: The Paris Soulmate
“He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.”
Source: The Book Thief
“He was the sole link to a life Natasha felt she could never fully be part of. Already she suspected love was over for her.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“He was the sort of actor everyone fell in love with as soon as he stepped onstage, and I was no exception.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.”
“He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.”
Source: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
“He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'”
“He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“He was the Starmaker, and she was the Starmaker Rising; they could never be together, and Aurora couldn't escape the heartbreaking truth that she was killing him just as he was bringing her to life.”
“He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn't feel steady at all.”
Source: Kingsbane
“He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.”
“He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”
Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)
“He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.”
Source: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
“He was the tallest and the strongest of all the children ever born to Doctor and Mrs Noyes and the first of them to survive.”
Source: Not Wanted on the Voyage
“He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.”
“He was the toast to her butter.”
“He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.”
Source: Pleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel
“He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.”
“He was the up and equal homosexual who would not sit at the back of the bus.”
“He was the very corpse of learning.”
Source: The Books in My Life
“He was the very devil stalking her, and she was an angel chased by demons straight to him.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“He was the vilest speaker I ever heard: vulgar, ignorant, not seeking to teach his hearers, but rather to stir in men as vulgar as himself the irrational excesses to which such people are prone; a whore among orators. Yet, when he denounced the men who were putting the City in fear, there was a kind of flame in him. He was a man so ignoble that if he remembered anything of the nature of excellence, excellence, I should think it was only so that he could taunt someone with the lack of it. He lived in spite and hate. And now he only invoked the good in the name of hatred; yet for a moment nobility glanced back at him, and made him brave. It was like seeing some mangy cur, who for years has lived on scraps and filth about the market, raising his hackles at a pack of wolves.”
Source: The Last of the Wine
“He was the wall I broke myself against. As I tried to tear down his walls, I was freed from my own.”
Source: Where You'll Land
“He was the wind to her sail, the anchor to her ship, the shore to her sea; she would follow him to any horizon, and he would do the same for her, regardless of what uncharted waters might lie ahead.”
Source: On the Edge of Daylight
“He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of creation, he could not himself perhaps have told what was passing in his own mind; he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him, mysterious interchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe.”
Source: Les Misérables
“He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“He was there, but never really there.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“He was there everynight, to make me laugh, to make me blush, to make a girl that couldn't dream, dream of a thousand different lives with him. He was the unwavering rock to lean on the nights when breathing felt insufferable. He was the voice and I was the echo.”
Source: Meet Me in the Ether
“He was there in her heart – as a lover, a friend, a reluctant saviour, and something else, too, that was too ethereal to name but felt a lot like eternity. If she lost him, she’d lose a part of herself.”
Source: Blood Surge: A Vampiric Urban Fantasy Novel
“He was there on the space station on his own secret mission and was worried how dangerous it might be.”
Source: The Polymorph
“He was thinking about his grandfathers, the hardships they endured for their families’ sake, and for the generations to continue and survive. They were real heroes, and they were sportsmen too, diving is one of the hardest sports in the world.”
Source: Dive, Fahad, Dive
“He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well?”
“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”
Source: Heed the Thunder
“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”
Source: Soonchild
“He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.”
“He was thirteen then, Elijah almost seven. Now, ten years later, Elijah realizes he’s older than Danny was. That all of those changes have happened to him, too. The changes that nobody has any say over. The biology—“growing” and “up” as a physical matter. The changes after—Elijah has to believe they’re a matter of choice. Looking at Danny used to be like looking at the future. Now looking at Danny is like looking at a future he doesn’t want.”
Source: Are We There Yet?
“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.”
Source: Rooftoppers