Robin Quotes

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions”
― Robin Hood

“In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Coming Attractions

“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

“Ryodan says softly, “Holy strawberries, Dani, we’re in a jam.”
I look at him like he’s sprouted two heads. Holy strawberries? In a jam? Even Barrons looks stumped.
He continues, “But don’t worry. Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods—you really butchered that one, by the way—I’ve got it in the bag. How about this one: holy borrowing bibliophile, let’s book.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred”
― Peter J. Tomasi, Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill

“«I realize there are a lot of things I haven't shared with you.»
«That's because you don't trust me, father.»
«I didn't trust you, Damian, do you really think you'd be standing here--my life's most safeguarded secrets accessible?»
«Sometimes I think your secrets have secrets»”
― Peter J. Tomasi

“Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.'

'Thank you,' said Robin.”
― Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

“I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.”
― Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

“So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?”
― Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover

“I see them now. My first thought is -- all of this for Damian? The son Batman never knew he had. Grandson to Ra's Al Ghul... and a kid no one can stand. And then I think... no... it's for Tim. For him, a thousand ninjas us just the start of what I would do.”
― Fabian Nicieza, Nightwing (1996-2009) #138

“Weeping was unthinkable. Once it was surrendered to, she might never he free of the self-pity. It was her biggest fear, so terrifying that she seldom could as much as name it.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Human rules, Coven concepts, need not apply here. It went beyond that, the Coven did not demand that she never cry. It was her own self-enforced discipline.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Her policy was to draw lessons from the bad things in life, and what she learned from her experiment in heterosexual love was that her worse enemy in Gaea was usually her own ignorance.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Robin had disgraced herself. She thanked the Great Mother that none of her sisters were here to see it, but it was small consolation. These six were her sisters now, for the duration of the trip and probably beyond.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“She had thought herself no stranger to violence, but the scale of recent events had shaken her.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“The signs a few days ago were right; there was a great battle in heaven, and the Wizard got away.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Could the careful structure of honor built over a lifetime be swept away this easily?”
― John Varley, Wizard

“How odd to realize that less than a year ago she had been nineteen and fearless.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Better to set one goal a few steps at a time, she thought, as she stood on the wide, flat windy plain that must be frozen Ophion.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“She had enough experience by now with the drugged, careless rapture so common among people who tried to live in Gaea without a clock that she knew she was far gone under its spell.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“The dance had left her cold; she was going now to listen to the song.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Whatever you do or don’t do to me, I’ve gained something. I wish I knew exactly what it was, and I wish it didn’t hurt so much to have it, but I wouldn’t go back to what I was.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“A scream kept bubbling in her throat, but it didn’t have anywhere to go.”
― John Varley, Demon

“I wonder if she’s figured out that we just dumped three tons of love potion on her?”
― John Varley, Demon

“Now hit the showers. Take your time. Come up with other reasons your a terrible person and I'll shoot those arguments down when you get back.”
― Bill Willingham, Robin (1993-2009) #123 (Robin

“I had withdrawn from humanity because I had, in fact, lost my humanity. I had believed that without my humanity, there was little to no purpose to my continuing to exist. However, in the past few minutes, I have begun to believe that perhaps... Just perhaps... There is some small aspect of human feeling left to me."

"Why?"

"Because I find that you three annoy the hell out of me. I feel the urge to smack you... Particularly Impulse. For that, I am indebted. Thank you."

"You're uh... You're welcome... I guess.”
― Peter David, Young Justice, Book One

“He frightened himself with the tone in his voice. He sounded just like his father.”
― Glenn Quigley, The Moth and Moon