Catch Quotes

• Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Catch
  • Sweeter
  • Nurse Rozetta

• If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

  

  Steve Berry
  • Friends
  • Bridge
  • Jumped

• I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Way
  • Suffer
  • Catch

• I don't know what you do about it. You'd like to catch them, but it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, they come and go.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Catch
  • Needle

• We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

  

  Anna Funder
  • Idea
  • Hold
  • Catch

• But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

  

  Ahdaf Soueif
  • World
  • Changed
  • Position

• Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

  

  Mordecai Brown
  • Dad
  • Baseball
  • Catch

• Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

  

  Billie Letts
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Catch

• Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Give
  • Catch

• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Changes

• You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

  

  Emily M. Danforth
  • Catch
  • Hiding

• If I've got to come out for a few plays in order to get back right and make sure I catch my wind so I can be ready for the next play, I'll do that.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Back
  • Come
  • Few

• Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sea
  • Spirits
  • Catch

• Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.

  

  George Jonas
  • Generation
  • Disappointment
  • Catch

• You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Something
  • Fishing
  • Catch

• The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Avoid
  • Sand
  • Hitting

• At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Human
  • Tongue
  • Catch

• One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Learn
  • Give Up
  • Catch

• I am so behind on all TV, and I love TV, but I literally, I get home so late, and when I get some time, I'm trying to catch up on my DVR.

  

  Melissa Fumero
  • Behind
  • Some
  • Literally

• They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • City
  • Ball
  • Catch

• I can't go too far above my head because of it. It keeps me from going in the wrong direction. I can still catch balls and pick the ball off.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Direction
  • Ball
  • Keeps

• True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Experience
  • Emotions
  • Give Up

• I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • My Life
  • Catch
  • Husbands

• Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.

  

  George H. Harrison
  • Moment
  • Camera
  • Image

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