Tom Sawyer Quotes

A modern day warrior mean mean stride, today's Tom Sawyer mean mean pride.

— Rush

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

— Mark Twain

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

— Anonymous

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.

— Alex Lifeson

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve […]

— Anonymous

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who…

— Michael Gurian

“Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest…

— Mark Twain

“I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either,…

— Aporva Kala

“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to…

— Robertson Davies

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and…

— John Grisham

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that…

— Mark Twain

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a…

— Grace Metalious

Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's…

— Mary Elizabeth Clark

“I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could…

— Jason Diamond

“One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he…

— Mark Twain

“I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme…

— Sarah Vowell

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of…

— Meryl Streep

Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop,…

— David Galenson

“Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees—something was a stirring. I set still and listened.…

— Mark Twain

“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…

— Mark Twain

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the…

— Richard Louv

“As part of the deal, Dylan appeared in a television ad for the iPod, featuring his new album, Modern Times. This was…

— Walter Isaacson

“Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the…

— Mark Twain

“There on the dune, beside the table, one of the camel boys has his arm around the other, and they sit there…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“You’re right about this being limited to me, it’s entirely a personal matter. But with some personal experiences that lead you way…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…

— Mark Twain

“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and…

— George Saunders

“I thought all this over for two or three days, and then I reckoned I would see if there was anything in…

— Mark Twain

“My parents placed a high value on reading, starting with the King James Bible, and one whole wall of our living room…

— John R. Erickson

“at Dunkin’ Donuts, how did we move our anchor to Starbucks? This is where it gets really interesting. When Howard Shultz created…

— Dan Ariely

“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you…

— Pablo

“He moves through the white glare of a Key West afternoon in that curious, rolling, cantilevered, ball-of-the-foot, and just-off-kilter gait that suggests…

— Paul Hendrickson

“MARK TWAIN Some months after invading Iraq, President George W. Bush said he had taken the war to liberate the Philippines as…

— Eduardo Galeano

“I think of Baghdad years ago, when I met Professor Al-Rawi for the first time to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

— Michael Pitre

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good…

— Samuel Fuller

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That…

— Keith Thibodeaux

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm…

— Sam Simon

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from…

— John Grisham

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough,…

— Caroline Lawrence