Top 141 Tumble Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. — © Gail Carriger
No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.
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.
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.
Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!
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.
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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
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.
The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over.
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
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?
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.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.
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.
As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.
I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.
It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.
[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.
How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.
I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.
In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble. — © Ira Gershwin
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.
In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold.
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.
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.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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.
I love a bit of rough and tumble.
I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
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.
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable. — © Roger Stone
In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.
I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.
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.
I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.
It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.
If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you're in your mid-40s and you can't land the way you used to, so it's great fun.
I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.
you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing
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