"Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time."

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Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

W. P. Kinsella

#Baseball Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.”
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”
“It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.”

Source : "Whose bright idea was that?". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.
“Success is a staircase, not a doorway.”
“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”
“It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.”
“God created animals. And theyâ€™re loving; theyâ€™re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I donâ€™t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.”
“So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.”

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