Stickball Quotes & Sayings

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did. — Bob Cousy

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. — A.J. Muste

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.' — Ernie Harwell

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways. — Darell Hammond

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not. — Jean Webster

Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

( ... ) I could "talk fast"
that's to say, without hesitating, stammering
most of the time
but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarrassment of it even whispering-teasing to Legs for instance 'Yeah you're my heart too!' or 'I love you' or 'I would die for you', nobody ever talked that way, mostly there was just my mother and me and we hardly talked at all. — Joyce Carol Oates

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people. — Jim Butcher

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke

The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare. — China Mieville

One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard. — Mike Tyson

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite. — Sid Luckman

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace. — Eckhart Tolle

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. — Tupac Shakur

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules. — Rene Balcer

synaesthesia - the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind. — David Lagercrantz

Do one thing every day to show that you love the universe. — Debasish Mridha

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids ... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place. — Jerry Doyle

Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows. — Max Lucado

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. — Kathie Lee Gifford