Toddle Quotes

#1. Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching her knee or arm as if she were home base, as if they knew they were safe ... it hurts me sometimes to watch.

Gillian Flynn

#2. If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

Salman Rushdie

#3. And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die
in bed.

Siegfried Sassoon

#4. My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Billy Strayhorn

#5. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... . And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.

Elizabeth Peters

#6. There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

George Eliot

#7. I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.

Kenneth Branagh

#8. I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

Cherie Lunghi

#9. In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

Colin Welland

#10. I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

Robert Benchley

#11. Some like to imagine
a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars,
mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light,
biting her lip of we teeter at some ledge. longing
to sweep us to her breast, she hopes for the best.

Tracy K. Smith

#12. Your mam's up there havin' a babbie, in case you've forgotten.' Seth kept the knife steady. 'I haven't forgotten, but Pearl's been Mam's lackey from the day she could toddle, an' you

Rita Bradshaw

#13. The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.

John Green

#14. Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?

Seth Shostak

#15. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

Julie Powell

#16. Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Barack Obama

#17. My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

Howard Coble

#18. Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

William Shakespeare

#19. The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

Jim Morrison

#20. My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.

Garth Greenwell

#21. The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Nigel Kneale

#22. I'm definitely the kind of person to wear underwear all the time.

Ashley Tisdale

#23. It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

Barry Pepper

#24. I made the first move. Now it's up to him."
"Telling him you should hit the sack and get it out of your system is not making the first move.

Mary J. Williams

#25. Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

Cynthia Ozick

#26. Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Bill Vaughan

#27. Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. No good came from silence either.

George R R Martin

#29. When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

B.K.S. Iyengar