Stump Quotes
51 quotes by 45 authors
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair…
— John Muir
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The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
— Hugh Sidey
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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
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You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
— Murray Walker
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I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me,…
— Toni Morrison
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I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.
— Tamora Pierce
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There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise…
— Obert Skye
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Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where…
— Steve Toltz
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There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like…
— James Frey
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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…
— Betty Smith
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Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be…
— Rachel Maddow
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Biggest dream?†I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought. “Kiss you.†“That’s not funny,†I said,…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing…
— Paullina Simons
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Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for…
— Eoin Colfer
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You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't…
— George R. R. Martin
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his…
— Robert Jordan
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Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a…
— Rachel Caine
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when…
— Theodore White
Who Wrote These Stump Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 51 Stump Quotes, led by these top contributors: