Favorite Quotes

[phkrause]

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”

[GreatLakesGramma]

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yutang

[GreatLakesGramma]

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

[phkrause]

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

Now that's an awesome quote, I love that guy. Its to bad that GB didn't listen to him more often than not. I would've loved to see him run for President, but I knew he wouldn't. He got to see what politics was all about, and he got a bad taste. And all the deception that goes with it.

[GreatLakesGramma]

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously. - Kate Blanchett

[GreatLakesGramma]

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little bit different than what it was before. - C.S. Lewis

[GreatLakesGramma]

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. - Erma Bombeck

[GreatLakesGramma]

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard

[GreatLakesGramma]

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery store, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. - Aldo Leopold (1949)

[phkrause]

You see, 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, Ball Four, 1970

[phkrause]

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

[phkrause]

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

[phkrause]

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

[phkrause]

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams

[phkrause]

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark

[phkrause]

A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976

[phkrause]

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart

[phkrause]

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. ~Roy Campanella

[phkrause]

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico

[phkrause]

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971

[phkrause]

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson

[phkrause]

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon

[phkrause]

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw

[phkrause]

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman

[phkrause]

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz