Top 20 Bumpkin Quotes
#1. I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret."
- Clare Harding
From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.
Lani Brown
#2. I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
Cass Elliot
#3. When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
Ming-Na Wen
#4. Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.
Simon Pegg
#5. Yes. I was such a bumpkin then ... I was as naive a country mushroom as you could meet.
Anna Campbell
#6. I am not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary superlative existed, could escape these unfavourable reflections of himself in various small mirrors; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin.
George Eliot
#7. Andi was forbidden fruit, and even if she wasn't, there was no way a pure country bumpkin like her could handle a self-confessed pussy pounding warrior like me.
Kirsty Dallas
#9. Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
Sally Field
#11. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
Herman Melville
#12. He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.
Thomas Watson
#13. Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.
Sophocles
#15. So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
Franz Liszt
#16. You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
John Cassavetes
#17. Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?
Kazimir Malevich
#18. Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.
Kano Jigoro
#19. For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.
Henry Hazlitt
#20. During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
Laird Barron
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