When The Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks may refer to:

In literature:

  • "When the bough breaks the cradle will fall", a line from the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby"
  • When the Bough Breaks (novel), a 1985 novel by Jonathan Kellerman
  • When the Bough Breaks, a 1993 novel by Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle

In film and television:

  • When the Bough Breaks (1947 film), a British film directed by Lawrence Huntington
  • When the Bough Breaks (1986 film), a television adaptation of Jonathan Kellerman's novel, starring Ted Danson
  • When the Bough Breaks (1993 film), a thriller by Michael Cohn
  • "When the Bough Breaks" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • "When the Bough Breaks", a season 2 episode of Castle (TV series).

In music:

  • When the Bough Breaks (album), a 1997 album by Bill Ward

Famous quotes containing the words when the, bough and/or breaks:

    “Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
    And when ‘tis safely got ‘tis worth the winning.
    The worst of ‘t is we now and then detect ‘em,
    Before they ever dream that we suspect ‘em.”
    —Bryan Waller Proctor (1787–1874)

    “Stands the Spring! heralded by its bright-clothed
    Trumpeters, of bough and bush and branch;
    Pale Winter draws away his white hands, loathed,
    And creeps, a leper, to the cave of time.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)