Quotes for All
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my … Read more
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. Ernie Harwell
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in … Read more
You can’t make a sculpture until you’ve got a lump of rock. Eran Creevy
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. Emily Post
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. Elizabeth Janeway
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla. Edward Dahlberg
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. Edward Alsworth Ross
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. Frederick Buechner
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near. Frederick Buechner