Quotes About Watership

#1. I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

Richard Adams

#2. Watership Down is a real place, like all the places in the book. It lies in north Hampshire, about six miles southwest of Newbury and two miles west of Kingsclere.

Richard Adams

#3. Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.

Rhianna Pratchett

#4. For some reason the past - any of our pasts - was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.

Tana French

#5. I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

Margo Lanagan

#6. The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

John F. Kennedy

#7. But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.

Pippa Goldschmidt

#8. The primroses were over.

Richard Adams

#9. Babe, I hate to break it to you, but you're one messed up mess."
"I know!" I exclaimed before breaking off into a fit of laughter. "I ought to be admitted or put on some serious medication or something.

K.R. Grace

#10. How precious are the souls of men!

Joseph Smith Jr.

#11. The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Edward Bach

#12. Typically, I like my women tall, lean, blonde, and a little on the "easy" side. Who doesn't really? I sound like an ass, don't I? - Dre

Angelisa Stone

#13. A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Richard Adams

#14. The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.

Richard Adams

#17. With my music, I create change ... I am using my music as a weapon.

Fela Kuti

#18. In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

Ezra Koenig

#19. You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Russell Pearce

#20. Racing through the ocher light, Bigwig was impelled by a frenzy of tension and energy. He did not feel the wound in his shoulder. The storm was his own. The storm would defeat Efrafa.

Richard Adams

#21. My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

Ruta Sepetys

#22. You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be alright - and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean.

Richard Adams

#23. Bluebell: Please, sir, I'm only a little [car] and I've left all my petrol on the grass. So if you don't mind eating the grass, sir, while I give this lady a ride-
Hazel: Bluebell, shut up!

Richard Adams

#24. The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking.

Richard Adams

#25. Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

Richard Adams