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'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world. -- Rob Sheffield
Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair. -- Gary Soto
Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear'd infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,Neglecting thy derision. -- Robert Herrick
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. -- Ambrose Bierce
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble. -- Maggie Siff
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. -- Hakeem Jeffries
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. -- Douglas Brinkley
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. -- Pat Roberts
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. -- John Lahr
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. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. -- Samuel Butler
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. -- Candis Cayne
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. -- Donna Brazile
Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. -- Bam Margera
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. -- Oprah Winfrey
I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. -- Robert Crumb
Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. -- Robert Crumb
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree. -- Beau Willimon
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. -- James Shirley
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. -- Juan Williams
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. -- Rebecca Wells
It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power. -- Rory Bremner
It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car. -- Madi Diaz
I took one look and fell, hook and tumble. -- Mary Oliver
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. -- Ira Gershwin
Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble. -- Max Lucado
As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down. -- Charlie Walker
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork. -- Wilson Mizner
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. -- Oprah Winfrey
No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. -- Gail Carriger
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. -- Ambrose Bierce
It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy. -- Thomas Kinkade
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. -- Donald Rumsfeld
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other. -- George MacDonald
I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser -- Rachel Caine
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. -- Remy de Gourmont
I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world. -- Louisa May Alcott
How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork? -- Charles Kingsley
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble. -- Paulo Coelho
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. -- Mark Twain
I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen. -- Bob Hartley
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. -- William Shakespeare
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. -- Anna Godbersen
I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up -- Lauren DeStefano
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
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble. -- Kenneth Lonergan
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out ? Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God! -- William Ross Wallace
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. -- St. Lucia
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. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Etty Hillesum
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. -- L.A. Meyer
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. -- Hilarie Burton
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. -- William Wordsworth
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. -- Anderson Cooper
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever. -- Swami Vivekananda
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 -- Naomi Shihab Nye
The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive. -- Ann Patras
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. -- Ambrose Bierce
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- Tom Springfield
There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil. -- Stanley Crawford
Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. -- Kobo Abe
My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in. -- Suzanne Collins
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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