#ripping

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#around #baseball #end #good #gripping

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#arts #child #children #curriculum #drilling

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. ↗

— James Payn

#effect #genial #hand #means #occasional

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american audience #audience #dramatically #given