"I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard."

-- Norman Rockwell

#Baseball Quotes #Mother Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.”
“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”
“We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.61, Profile Books
“If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”
“The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”

Source : "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.
“You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.”
“Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
“What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?”

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