Quotes
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.
You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.