"Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind."

-- John Arlott

#Umpires Quotes #Bird Quotes #Stopping Quotes

“Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.”
“A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.”
“I drank my liver out.”
“in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.”
“Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.”
“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”
“A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.”
“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

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