"I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore."

-- Margaret Drabble

#Dying Quotes #Tradition Quotes #Ends Quotes

“When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.”
“Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.”
“I can't ask the offense to score slower.”
“Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.”

Source : John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.443, Transaction Publishers
“Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.”
“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”
“You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down.”
“I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.”

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