Ripken Tournament Quotes & Sayings

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. — Benjamin Franklin

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday. — Margaret Mitchell

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting. — Joe Cocker

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn't have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly and American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then. So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in ancient Rome? — John Green

It's always easier to ask questions than provide answers. Journalists - and revolutionaries, I assume - know it only too well. — Sudeep Chakravarti

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. — Larry Wall

I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear - even apart from me. I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. — Ta-Nehisi Coates