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ears Quotes

26 of the best book quotes about ears

“I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don’t affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

Douglas Adams

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with Wisdom.”

Three Initiates

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The Kybalion / A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

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“It’s a small town, Jazz. I keep my ear to the ground.”

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“Brushing a girl’s hair behind her ear once a day will solve more problems than all those therapists and drugs.”

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“I don’t mean to be rude, but I think it is ridiculous to have ears on the sides of one’s head. It certainly looks ridiculous. You ought to take a peek in the mirror some day and see for yourself.”

Roald Dahl

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James and the Giant Peach

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“What was Sheila Tubman talking about? I looked the same as always. And why did she think Tootsie was lucky not to look like me? Unless it was my ears. Lately, they seemed too big.”

Judy Blume

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Superfudge

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“Not every doctor can look into a mouse’s ear without laughing.”

E.B. White

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Stuart Little

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“A few raindrops came, gentle at first, then stronger and louder, so that Caleb and I covered our ears and stared at each other without speaking. Caleb looked frightened and I tried to smile at him.”

Patricia Maclachlan

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

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“The wrestling usually ended with her winning, her prize being the hug I could no escape from. And her voice would whisper in my ears the words of blessing of the Hidden, while my stepfather grumbled mildly she spoiled me, and the little girls, my half-sisters jumped around us for their share of the hug and the blessing.”

Lian Hearn

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Across the Nightingale Floor

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“Little Nutbrown Hare, who was going to bed, held on tight to Big Nutbrown Hare’s very long ears. He wanted to be sure that Big Nutbrown Hare was listening.”

Sam McBratney

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Guess How Much I Love You

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“I listened and looked so hard that my ears hurt and my eyes got cloudy with the cold.”

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″ ‘Just look at his ears!’ cried Mrs Rabbit. ‘I’m sure I’d never hear him with those furry things. And, oh dear, no tail! - Well, well! Take care he does not catch cold. I really think he should have a tail to keep him warm.’ ”

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“This little baby was the funniest wee creature. He was only about an inch long and covered with soft baby fur, had two big ears, compared to the size of the rest of him, a tiny black nose, and two beady eyes. His mother and father always had a surprised look on their faces, but they looked more surprised than ever now as they gazed at their baby.”

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“That night Treehorn was watching TV. As he reached over to change channels, he noticed that his hand was bright green. He looked in the mirror that was hanging over the television set. His face was green. His ears were green. His hair was green. He was green all over.

Florence Perry Heide

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The Shrinking of Treehorn

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“Mr. Bear, do you see these two ears on my head? My ears are so keen and so sharp and so fine. No ears in the world can hear further than mine!”

Dr. Seuss

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“Once there was a soft brown toy called Dogger. One of his ears pointed upwards and the other flopped over. His fur was worn in places because he was quite old.”

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“All the animals laughed when they saw the iguana coming, badamin, badamin, with the sticks still stuck in his ears!”

Verna Aardema

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

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“But because of this the mosquito has a guilty conscience. To this day she goes about whining in people’s ears. ‘Zeee! Is everyone still angry at me?’ When she does that, she gets an honest answer.”

Verna Aardema

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

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“Each ear of corn has many seed kernels. Alfalfa knew that he would need seeds to plant at the next corn-planting time. So he put some kernels in a bag to save for planting. He kept some ears to eat himself.”

Richard Scarry

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What Do People Do All Day?

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“He walked on, quite unconscious of the direction in which he was going, and more than once finding his hat knocked off by branch of a tree which he had not perceived- for the best of all possible reasons, because his eyes were cast on the ground- when his ears were saluted with the neighing of a horse.”

Frederick Marryat

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The Children of the New Forest

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″ ‘Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!’ ‘That is the better to hug thee, my dear’ ‘Grandmama, what great legs you have got!’ ‘That is to run the better, my child’ ‘Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!’ ‘That is to hear the better, my child’ ‘Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!’ ‘It is to see the better, my child’. ”

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Little Red Riding Hood

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“Alfanhui would have been unable to say whether there was a dark solitude in his eyes and an unfathomable silence in his ears because the music and the colors came from that other place from which concrete knowledge never comes, a place abandoned on the very first day behind the farthermost wall of memory where that other memory is born;”

Rafael Sanchez Ferlioso

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The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui

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“Young Uncle James had eyes that saw and ears that heard.”

Alice Dalgliesh

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The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

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“She flew at him so madly that you could see fire spurting from her ears. Big Pickles ducked and Jenny struck the ladders. The truck toppled over, with Pickles beneath it.”

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