Victoria Grayson Funny Quotes & Sayings

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable. — Jane Leavy

Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, perusing the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters routinely and with glee. He enjoyed brilliant heretics as only the confidently faithful can, seeing in Gibbon the inspired rantings of a cheerleader working himself into a frenzy for a losing team, getting especially rabid come the dreaded fourth quarter, when Jesus begins running up the score. — Scott M. Morris

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today. — John C. Maxwell

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks."
"You might not think so if you were a duck. — Michel Faber

I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds, — Ed Kashi

We ... recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history - the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom. — Carlos Bulosan

Many a true thing is said in jest. — Jane Greensmith

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour. — Winston Churchill

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. — Mason Cooley