Stumps Quotes

• Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

  Colette Inez

  Tree, Looks, Woods

  Colette Inez (1993). “Getting under way: new and selected poems”, Story Line Pr

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• You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

  Murray Walker

  Cutting, Cricket, Tension

  "Happy birthday Mr F1: A birthday tribute to motorsport legend Murray Walker" by Byron Young, www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2012.

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• A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Tree, Forever, Forests

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.443, Faber & Faber

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• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  William Gilbert

  Success, Blow, Wish

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• I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

  Buddy Holly

  Trying, Language, Not Interested

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• This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Forever, Forests, Seedlings

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Vacuums, Wonder

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• But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

  Betty Smith

  Men, Tree, Trying

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Laughing, Soul

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  Harold Larwood

  Real, Dark, Tunnels

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• Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Trying, Culture

  1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.

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• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Tired, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

  Hugh Sidey

  Problem, Easy, Rhetorical

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Fake People, Nails, Would Be

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• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Fake People, Hypocrite, Cutting

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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• what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

  Edna O'Brien

  Fear, Animal, Knowing

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• The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Prose And Poetry, Fog, Wire

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.104, Grove Press

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• Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

  Josh Ritter

  Water, Tree, Body

  Josh Ritter (2011). “Bright's Passage: A Novel”, p.13, Dial Press

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• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

  Henry Rollins

  Snow, Laughing, Soul

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• You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.

  Brett Lee

  Thinking, Two, Bats

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• Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

  Don Feder

  May, Golden, Vote

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

  Martha Beck

  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign.

  Byron York

  Believe, Race, Years

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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