Mound Quotes
57 Mound quotes by 48 unique authors
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People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time,…
— Kim Harrison
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The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,…
— John Muir
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If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I…
— Bengie Molina
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show…
— Rahm Emanuel
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I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
— Jennie Finch
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there.…
— Babe Ruth
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a…
— Bill Bryson
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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
— Dodie Smith
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The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one…
— Confucius
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My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people -…
— Dodie Smith
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And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Rowww!” Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn’t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through…
— Rick Riordan
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Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city…
— Terry Pratchett
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But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I…
— Meg Cabot
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The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the…
— Beverly Cleary
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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on…
— Jimmy Piersall
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I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the…
— Tim McCarver
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Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.
— Goose Gossage
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My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the…
— Tom Seaver
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The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
— Joe Garagiola
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I love you because you can always make me smile. Not only when I feel like smiling, but also when I feel like just dying…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Mound Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 57 Mound Quotes, led by these top contributors: