Walking Sticks Quotes

• Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

  Charles Lamb

  Literature, Crutches, Sticks

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• Entonces algo de Tookish se despertó en su interior, y deseó ir a ver las grandes montañas, y oír los pinos y las cascadas, y explorar las cuevas, y llevar una espada en lugar de un bastón.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Travel, Tree, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

  Kobayashi Issa

  Rivers, Snow, Melting

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• When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Tree, Helping

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Dream, Real, Journey

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• The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Hands, Effort, Purpose

  Thorstein Veblen (2011). “Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.184, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

  Margaret Mead

  Sight, Handbags, World

  Margaret Mead (1975). "Macho y hembra: un estudio de los sexos en un mundo cambiante", William Morrow & Co.

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• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lynching, Revolution, Generations

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• He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

  Madeline Miller

  Use, Weapons, Killers

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

  John Arlott

  Men, Cricket, Knocking

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• Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

  Dave Barry

  God, Animal, Stupidity

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• Fue mi bigote lo que me consiguió trabajos. En la época del cine mudo, era la marca de un villano. Cuando me di cuenta de que me habían encasillado como un noble extranjero, empecé a vivir el papel. Me compré un par de polainas blancas, una corbata ascot y un bastón.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Jobs, Silent Films, White

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

  Waqar Younis

  Play, Legs, Cricket

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• using parking meters as walking sticks.

  Tom Waits

  Parking Meters, Sticks, Meter

  Song: Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street

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• When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.

  Bailey White

  Moving, People, Attention

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Tree

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• Oye Atticus, ¿me haces un favor rápido antes de irnos? Es fácil. Claro. ¿Qué es? Sostén el bastón de Granuailes por un minuto. Ya sabes, apóyalo en el suelo para que sea como un bastón o algo así y la parte superior esté cerca de tu mejilla derecha. Granuaile y yo intercambiamos armas para complacerlo y yo me puse de pie como se me indicó. Perfecto. Ahora di esto como Sir Ian McKellen Soy Atticus el Blanco, y vuelvo a ti ahora en el cambio de marea.

  Kevin Hearne

  White, Perfect, Favour

  Kevin Hearne (2014). "Las Crónicas del Druida de Hierro 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted", p.1625, Del Rey

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• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  Rachel Caine

  Summer, Teacher, Crazy

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• We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

  Jesse Browner

  Dark, Safety, Needs

  Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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