Top 162 Mantle Quotes & Sayings

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.

Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

Senior Tories have exhibited a brand of entitled arrogance that implies that they own Brexit. It seems that anyone else who claims its mantle can be pushed to one side. And that includes voters.

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.

I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren't getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.

A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

It was an absolute pleasure just to be able to tell my grandkids, 'Yep. I Superman-punched Vince McMahon right in the face twice.' You can put that on my mantle.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.