Rumsey Quotes & Sayings

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to. — Leontyne Price

Reverend Rumsey's voice droned on. "... And Mrs. Livonia Butt's, for her generous donation of awards-winning butter, so ingeniously sculpted into frolicking hams... I'm sorry, that's frolicking lambs... — Julie Berry

The consumption of ice cream (pints per person) and the number of murders in New York are positively correlated. That is, as the amount of ice cream sold per person increases, the number of murders increases. Strange but true! — Deborah J. Rumsey

What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours? — Neal Shusterman

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. — Henry David Thoreau

As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. — Renee Ahdieh

Young foliage sweet bronze.
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume. — Tessa Rumsey

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right? — Dave Eggers