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Quotes About Lullaby

The Song that Toomai's Mother sang to the Baby
~ Jonathan Swift
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
~ Adam Sandler
The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white hands. The
~ Rabindranath Tagore
As Baudoin explained: A very simple way of securing this (impregnation of the subconscious mind) is to condense the idea which is to be the object of suggestion, to sum it up in a brief phrase which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over and over again as a lullaby.
~ Joseph Murphy
As you go to sleep tonight, practice the many techniques referred to here. Repeat the word wealth quietly, easily, and feelingly. Do this over and over again as a lullaby. Lull yourself to sleep with the one word: wealth. You will be amazed by the results. Wealth should flow to you in avalanches of abundance; this is another example of the miracles of the subconscious mind.
~ Joseph Murphy
Le rythme lent et appliqué me faisait venir au cœur une lointaine berceuse créole.
~ Daniel Picouly
Hushabye baby lulled by the storm if you don't harm her she'll do you no harm
~ Doris Lessing
When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the poem Lullaby)
~ Dorothy Parker
The latest one was a lullaby. Marvin droned, Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. He paused to gather the artistic and emotional task to tackle the next verse. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night.
~ Douglas Adams
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.
~ Richard Brautigan
Wait, I see something: It sounds like a lullaby is being sung to children in the other world. Answer: The sound of a swiftly moving current. Koyukon riddle
~ Richard K. Nelson
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
~ James Fenton
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.
~ Liz Chase
I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.
~ Debby Ryan
I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.
~ Nellie McKay
Why are you singing?" Daniel asked. "You're just lying in the dirt and singing. That's weird. I thought you were supposed to be some kind of scary monster.
~ Amanda Hocking, Lullaby
I see her every night," Teddy says. "She sleeps under my bed so I can hear her singing.
~ Jason Rekulak
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town,Upstairs and downstairs, in his nichtgown,Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,"Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."
~ William Miller
Sweet and low, sweet and low,Wind of the western sea,Low, low, breathe and blow,Wind of the western sea!Over the rolling waters go,Come from the dying moon, and blow,Blow him again to me;While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.
~ Alison Croggon
Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.
~ Kim Harrison
Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
~ Adam Pally
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
~ Adam Sandler