#owe

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #colored #either #i #owe

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bestowed #something #sympathy #them #upon

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations. ↗

— George Carey

#build #going #hope #i #must

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it. ↗

— George Carey

#body #boy #dog #enjoyed #i

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #dreams #empowerment #equality #feminism

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#destroy #directly #fact #however #mankind

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#bad #both #good #hear #however

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#each #far #foolish #himself #know