Cragoe Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough. — Alessandra Torre

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. — Ryan Cabrera

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead. — Martin O'Neill

But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? — Hanya Yanagihara

And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you. — Elijah Muhammad

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning. — Linda Howard

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. — Sara Gruen

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. — Dana Gioia

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation. — Susan Sontag

Peace, unity and harmony! — Cathy Freeman

Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson

Unhappy failures need not apply. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mr. Ferris didn't say anything the whole time. He sat next to me and listened. And when I finished, I looked at him.
He was crying. I'm not lying. He was crying.
I don't think it was because how hard I hit him.
I know how the Black-Backed Gull feels when he looks up into the sky.
Maybe, somehow, Mr. Ferris does too. — Gary D. Schmidt