Stumps Quotes

60 quotes by 58 authors

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps. — John Arlott
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant… — Thomas Eakins
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name. — Patrick Stump
A box of new crayons! Now theyâ€™re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon theyâ€™ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded,… — Bill Watterson
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards? — Calvin Trillin
Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf. — Don Feder
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. — Buddy Holly
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps… — Lenore Skenazy
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and… — Ogden Nash
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. — Norman Tebbit
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
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… — Henry Rollins
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. — Hugh Sidey
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
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. — Murray Walker
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and… — Paul Stamets
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… — Norman Douglas
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
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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