Quotes About Tumble

#1. Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#2. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

James Boswell

#3. If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

Mitt Romney

#4. Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

Donna Brazile

#5. Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

E.B. White

#6. [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

Janet Leigh

#7. beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.

C.S. Lewis

#8. It's as if we pull up to the end of the world,
throw the car doors wide and tumble out
to consumer the view..."
- from "Ten Mile Point

Ingrid Ruthig

#9. A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.

Rebecca McClanahan

#10. When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.

Mitch Albom

#11. I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Kamala Harris

#12. How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

Charles Kingsley

#13. While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up.

Geoffrey Canada

#14. The key is never sheer numbers. The key is the correct catalyst. A pebble can start a landslide and the boulders have no say in the matter as they tumble down the hill.

Patrick Ness

#15. Pedestals aren't safe ... one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

Sanjo Jendayi

#16. I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

Lauren DeStefano

#17. By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

William Wordsworth

#18. What do you want to do with me?" she asked.
You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all."
By drugging me?"
(Molly and Arch)

Frank Beddor

#19. Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

William Shakespeare

#20. Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Candis Cayne

#21. the man with the rifle watches the stars as if waiting for them to shake loose from the black and tumble to the Earth. Why

Rick Yancey

#22. It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon

#23. Don't be too hard on yourself!
You'll fall apart if you tumble.

Toba Beta

#24. The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

Charlie Walker

#26. Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny
While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

Jeffrey Lewis

#27. I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

Bob Hartley

#28. She took a tumble down the stairs and I almost swallowed my tongue. I was hoping Broderick could provide some insight on how he was able to raise her to adulthood in one piece.

Alanea Alder

#29. I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good ... tumble dry.-Eve Rosser

Rachel Caine

#30. I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?

Elise Allen

#31. I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#32. But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

Tommy Tenney

#33. Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay, leap over crumbling walkways, and dangle our legs over ledges?

Samantha Sotto

#34. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.

Robert Herrick

#35. Memories
fall
like
snowflakes
upon
my dreams.
The snowflakes
toss and tumble,
each different
and yet
the same.

Lisa Schroeder

#36. The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

Wilson Mizner

#37. I didn't want to tumble into that deep dark - how much I wanted to stay here among the clouds and color and light.

Sarah J. Maas

#38. Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

Frances Hardinge

#39. It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Thomas Kinkade

#40. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

Kobo Abe

#41. My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you will never know.

Sarah Dessen

#42. The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

Hakeem Jeffries

#43. The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

Swami Vivekananda

#44. Inside me are the real things that give me strength - my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

Ally Condie

#45. So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#46. Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.

Rachel Hollis

#47. We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

Jose Rizal

#48. My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

Suzanne Collins

#49. Be cool, my fevered brain.
And it wouldn't hurt you, body, to take a tumble in the snow.

Sherryl Jordan

#50. If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though.

L.A. Meyer

#51. No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

Gail Carriger

#52. But froward Fortune and perverse, Whan high estatis she doth reverse, And maketh hem to tumble doun Of hir whele, with sodeyn tourn.

Anonymous

#53. In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble.

Ira Gershwin

#54. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

Susan Cain

#55. Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

Gary Soto

#56. Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.

Carew Papritz

#57. And this other evening light, rainy, rose and silver, and to her left a river the color of cold lead. Dark tumble of city, towers in the distance, few lights.

William Gibson

#58. Probably, all these words would tumble out, these stupid, useless words I've been carrying everywhere like a bouquet of delicate, beautiful, stupid, useless flowers.

Daniel Jose Older

#59. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

#60. Because the least painful part of an affair is the tumble and tangle of body parts. The agony is in the guts. In the reasons behind it.

Jessica Hawkins

#61. His thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble.

Anthony Doerr

#62. She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison"
He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life."
"Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

Victoria Schwab

#63. What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Helen Keller

#64. Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

Bam Margera

#65. Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.

M.P. Johnson

#66. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

Sarah Dessen

#67. The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Mark Twain

#68. Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

Max Lucado

#69. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

Lemony Snicket

#70. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

#71. As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

Rebecca Wells

#72. The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#73. I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows' toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next season on a railway line!

Initially NO

#74. Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst.

Hiromi Kawakami

#75. Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

Chris Vance

#76. Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.

Rodney Ross

#77. You wouldn't cancel your insurance policy in the middle of a hurricane, and you shouldn't sell silver when it takes a tumble. Like any insurance, silver's value will pay out over time, not day by day.

Howard Ruff

#78. I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result.
"I win," I tell him. "The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can't beat that."
"I'm afraid that's not how it works, love.

Rysa Walker

#79. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.

Martin Pistorius

#80. Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of
children tumble into the void.

Roberto Bolano

#81. I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

Dexter Palmer

#82. A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Anna Godbersen

#83. If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me - a dam breached.

E.L. James

#84. Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

Melanne Verveer

#85. Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Laozi

#86. The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

Douglas Brinkley

#87. 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Rob Sheffield

#88. A shell like this one, beautiful to begin with, can get cracked and slivered, and then time, the tides, maybe even the wind, tumble and toss it, and it becomes something new, a perfect version of itself.

Deirdre Riordan Hall

#89. The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.

R.L. LaFevers

#90. What's going on, Mystique?" I whispered. "What are we doing in this very dark bedroom, exchanging flirty eyes?" She held up her hands, her words coming out in a breathless tumble. "This room is Vegas. Okay? What happens here stays here. Or, rather, what's said here stays here.

Christina Lauren

#91. Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.

Luke Rhinehart

#92. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Oprah Winfrey

#93. Between the inked-up, rough-and-tumble Mick and Adam, the debonair dom, she was totally screwed. But like, in a good way. This sort of thing they made together was a sort of magic, and there was nothing she could do but love it as much as she loved them.

Lauren Dane

#94. Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!

John Bunyan

#95. The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

#96. Nails on skin, teeth on lips, and hearts on sleeves, we tumble over the edge, together.

J.A. DeRouen

#97. I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

Louisa May Alcott

#98. While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

Emile Durkheim

#99. What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#100. Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.

Anthony Doerr