Gum Stump Quotes

#1. He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction

Timothy B. Tyson

#2. Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Meryl Streep

#3. Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

Umberto Eco

#4. And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.
Katherine cliffton
The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

#5. There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

George Clooney

#6. Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned.

Meagan Spooner

#7. If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

Sam Hamill

#8. Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

Amy Carmichael

#10. I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Dave Zirin

#11. I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

Kami Garcia

#12. The whole point of all this reading is to learn and grow. So, finally, talk about what you read. Think and reflect on the things you read. Process the ideas. Jot down the questions. Books stimulate thought, so take advantage of it and write it down.

Kevin D. Hendricks

#13. The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#14. Valentine's Day. The most ridiculous Hallmark excuse for a holiday ever.

Kim Askew

#15. As a battalion commander in France, it was said, he had once pulled a pistol on a hesitant junior officer and shot him in the buttocks. "There," Allen said. "You're out. You're wounded." Such gestures would be unnecessary here.

Rick Atkinson

#16. Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.

J.D. Robb