Called Tom Thumb

Famous quotes containing the words called, tom and/or thumb:

    I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The palsy plagues my pulses
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)

    I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
    Jane Addams (1860–1935)