#rubber

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#consent #does #mean #rubber #rubber stamp

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#administration #been #bush #bush administration #department

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#crucial #earning #families #income #industry

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#come #dark #down #down the road #fear

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#ball #begin #bouncing #boy #cannot

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time. ↗

— Rick Baker

#buy #free #free time #how #i

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#assistants #battalion #does #happiness #more

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time. ↗

— Fred Upton

#every #every time #i #know #me