"Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl."

-- Eric Williams

#Basketball Quotes #Girl Quotes #Player Quotes

“I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.”
“I guess I was popular in high school.”
“Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.”
“You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.”
“No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet....”
“If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.”
“I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”
“...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.”

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