"Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves."

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Source : Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Grantland Rice

#Summer Quotes #Running Quotes #Country Quotes

“I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character”

Source : Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.51, Vintage
“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
“When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.”
“It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.”
“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.”
“I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.”
“The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.”

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