Quotes About Humpty Dumpty

#1. I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

Ricky Gervais

#2. You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Gale Forman

#6. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

Ice Cube

#7. Whitman Press will publish three children's textbooks, based on your creed, for which you'll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children's Necronomicon (with pop-up section)

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with - though some of them paid the fact a cautious lipservice.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler ...

Dalton Trumbo

#10. And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was.

George Carlin

#11. When I heard Humpty Dumpty I wondered did he fall or was he pushed?

P.D. James

#12. Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses.

Lauren Beukes

#13. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

Lewis Carroll

#14. Disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Charlotte Armstrong

#15. After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

Colin Mochrie

#16. Humpty Dumpty was pushed.

Fred Berri

#17. When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

Lewis Carroll

#18. When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

P.D. James

#19. Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

Herbert A. Simon

#20. When Grandma read me:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall ...
I never
knew
that
Humpty's
fall
was
something
that
someday
comes
to
us
all.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#21. And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?"
"Three hundred and sixty-four, of course."
Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

Lewis Carroll

#22. I'm Jill Dumpty."
"So your brother was Humpty Dumpty?"
"And he didn't fall off that wall, Mr. Horner. He was pushed.

Neil Gaiman

#23. She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was

Danielle Steel

#24. Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Lewis Carroll

#25. My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

Kiki Smith

#26. No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#27. When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

Therese Anne Fowler

#28. He looks like a mixture of Humpty-Dumpty and a Cornish elf
very short and broad
and I don't think he's anyone's fool.

John Le Carre

#29. Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? ... To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own.

James Joyce

#30. As long as it's an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt

Ashley Chappell

#31. Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Tori Amos

#32. We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Tom Tancredo

#33. MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN!
Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.

Charles Bukowski

#34. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G.K. Chesterton

#35. I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up ... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

Zig Ziglar

#36. The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.

Marie Osmond

#37. They don't expect anything from the French state, since they learned to stay hidden, often arriving without papers," he said. "Unemployment in France is of little concern, because essentially they're all entrepreneurs. It's a state of mind.

Anonymous

#38. When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don't write any kind at all: I'm trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.

Leslie Jamison

#39. If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

Dean Winters

#40. I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#41. Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Lewis H. Lapham

#42. I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

Alan Ball

#43. Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Jasper Fforde

#44. God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Tom T. Hall