Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Vida Blue

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

Usher

I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

Stephen King

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

Stan Musial

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Stan Coveleski

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Ron Gardenhire

It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

Steve Garvey

Baseball is the life.

Steve Garvey

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Garry Trudeau

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Livy

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

Livy

From abundance springs satiety.

Louis Dudek

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Lord Byron

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Lord Byron

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Cormac McCarthy

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing...

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.

Jonathan Haidt

There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.