Marbles Quotes

“A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

“Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]

It's me

And who is the poet writing this poem?

That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles”
― Pierre Albert-Birot, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“We were fascinated by the little glass spheres, by those dark waves of color, some narrow and drawn out into several swirls, and others that widened out in the center of the marble into a single bundle and thinned out smoothly at the ends. There were reddish streaks in Añuco's new marbles, but in the cloudy, chipped ones the bands of color also appeared, strangely and inexplicably.”
― José Maria Arguedas, Antología poética

“Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“...cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sometimes you have to lose a few marbles, and have it roll to find new pavement.”
― Anthony Liccione

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― Going Granite

“Oh My MARBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
― E7

“You’ve given your heart to her, maybe, but there’s no need to lose your marbles as well.”
― Yaba Badoe, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

“The alligator carved onto the column nearest him seemed to be smiling through its crooked teeth.
Normal doesn't belong, it reminded Blue. Not in this place.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“⭐Smart people, thought Blue, stay away when you tell them you're cursed. Normal people think you've lost your marbles.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“I could float and drift and not have to speak to anybody, explain anything, just swim beneath the surface. It was always my escape. It still is now.

Family, life, love, search, Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector

“Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector

“I know it's scary, changes can be scary.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector

“De populaire spreekwijze drukt dit duidelijk uit in de woorden: het gaat niet om de knikkers, maar om het spel, in andere woorden: het finale element der handeling is in eerste instantie gelegen in den afloop als zoodanig, zonder directe betrekking op wat daarna volgt.”
― Huizinga Johan, Homo Ludens