#ball

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#fatherhood #summerland #baseball

Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative. ↗

— Dan Frisby

#photography

What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me? ↗

— Olivia Parker

#confused #historical-romance #infatuation #romance #self-talk

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ballot #ballot box #because #box #elected

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#besides #biggest #else #hoop #i

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#family #finish #i #just #little

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#crazy #declaring #got #guys #high

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ballads #border #clearly #heroic #hood

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#change #curve #digest #easier #had