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:

    “Kings were wont to honour philosophers; but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such purity in them that they would not seek when they are the second to be the first, and when they are third to be the second.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “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)

    “You will learn one day, great king, that there are but three things that men respect: the lash that descends, the yoke that breaks and the sword that slays. By the power and terror of these you may conquer the earth.”
    —Miles Malleson (1888–1969)