Ripken Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I swear, there is no chemical drug out there that can reproduce the feelings you have of achieving your goals. — Greg Plitt

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance. — Robert Greene

Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity is scorned, immorality is laughed at in school - "God is old-fashioned!" What else can we expect but that thousands of our young people are growing up to be immoral?7 — Billy Graham

A happy healthy soul; sacred life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody. — Jimi Hendrix

Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments. — Heber J. Grant

She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. — Victoria Connelly

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces? — Roger McGough

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast. — Marc Blucas

I'm glad there are organizations like Dale Murphy's I Won't Cheat Foundation. I'm glad there are athletes with standards and morals who kids can look up to and learn from. I'm glad that for every bad example my nephew sees today on ESPN that I can share with him stories about truly heroic ballplayers like Cal Ripken, Jr. or Dale Murphy or Kirby Puckett. — Tucker Elliot

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed to him that they did. Two words: the one an invitation, the other an ideal, an adventure, a necessity. "Imagine" said the garden. "Freedom" said the tower. Imagine freedom. That was the spirit, the message of this city he loved. You really didn't need anything more. Dream it and do it. But first you must dream it. — Edward Rutherfurd

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment. — Kourtney Kardashian