Lump In The Throat Quotes

• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Oatmeal

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Problem

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Emotion, Found

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Miracle, Doe

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• Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Dream, Rookies

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wall, Stress, Stupid

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

  Bil Keane

  Heart, Eye, Laughing

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• Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Oatmeal, Life Is

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.147, Ivy Books

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• Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

  Frederick Buechner

  Waiting, Movement, Hunches

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Emotion

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

  Bil Keane

  Drawing, Laughing, Important

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• A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
  "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Sound, Poet

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• A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.

  Walt Kelly

  Two, Throat, Lumps

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