Moving Away
“Promise you won’t forget me, because if I thought you would, I would never leave.”
-Winnie the Pooh
“Moving on is simple. It’s what we leave behind that’s hard.”
“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world we really like and then just stay together? I guess it wouldn’t work, someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say goodbye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need, I need more hellos.”-Snoopy
“I’m so glad you came back tonight; I have to grow up tomorrow.”-Peter Pan
“Home, you can never leave it. Not as long as it holds something to be missed.”-Gloria Naylor
"Leave, but don't leave me. Look around, choose your own ground, for long you live and high you fly, and smiles you give and tears you cry, and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."-Pink Floyd
"Save tonight, and fight the break of dawn. Come tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be gone."-Eagle Eye Cherry
”Proverbs”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“Every day we are given stones, but do we build a bridge, or a wall?”
“Never fear the shadows. It only means there is light nearby.” -Ruth E. Renkel
“After all, who is going to remember you in twenty years if you just ‘fit in’?”-Rebecca Wagner
“Character is what you are in the dark.”-Dwight L. Moody
“A single grain of rice can tip the scale.”-The emperor (Mulan)
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”-Walter Lippman
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”-Chinese Proverb
“To one lost sheep a shepherd boy is greater than the richest king.”-Stephen Schwartz (Prince of Egypt)
“The grass may be greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.”
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”-Eric Hoffer
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."-Mark Twain
"If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself."-Seneca
"You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note."-Doug Floyd
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."-Booker T. Washington
"Sometimes the test is not to find the answer. It's to see how you react when you realize there is no answer."-Babylon 5
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."-Maya Angelou
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest."-J.G. Holland
"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit." -Dwight Marrow
School
“My homework is like a juicy steak...rarely done.”
“In highschool, you can’t go out to lunch because it’s not allowed. In college, you can’t go out to lunch because you can’t afford it.”
“All A’s? Yeah, me, I prefer a variety of letters.” -Jerry O’Connell (The 60’s)
“Homework sucked the brain right out of me!”
“College is a fountain of knowledge and the students are there to drink!”
“A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that knowledge doesn’t go to waste.”-Mr. Holland’s Opus
“If we were interested in making money, we wouldn’t have become teachers.”-Robin Williams (Flubber)
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday."-Abraham Lincoln
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."-Henry B. Adams
"When you're through learning, you're through."-Kernon Law
"The translator is a traitor." -French proverb
"Have you ever wondered if the butterfly remembers what it was like to be a caterpillar?" -Patrick Brady
Sports
“Friends don’t let friends play slowpitch.”
“Men play above the rim, beyond the fence, and in the red zone. Women play above their shoulders.”
“If you knew there was no tomorrow, how hard would you play today?”
“I’d wake up at night with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet, the thrill of the grass...”-Ray Liotta (Field of Dreams)
“I’da played for food money. Did you ever hold a glove or a ball to you face? Shh...I’da played for nothing.”-Ray Liotta (Field of Dreams)
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”-James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams)
“The only fair thing in softball is a hit between first and third.”
“Tonight, he will make the fateful walk to the loneliest spot in the world, the pitching mound at Yankee stadium, to push the sun back into the sky and give us one more day of summer.”-Vin Scully (For Love of the Game)
“My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom that I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.”-Edward J. McGrath, Jr.
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you."-Roy Campanella
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."-Red Smith
"A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while." -Tim Robbins (Bull Durham)
"Walt Whitman once said, 'I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.' You could look it up." -Susan Sarandon (Bull Durham)
"I believe there ought to be a constitutional ammendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter."-Kevin Costner (Bull Durham)
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."
"Softball is life, and life is short."
"With speeds up to 70 mph, there's nothing soft about it."
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
"The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours."-Peggy Flemming
"If you don't feel it, forget it."-Walon Jennings
"Winning isn't everything, wanting to is."
"The mood of an entire city can be changed by a tug on a chain..."
This is talking about the first down chains on a football field...it's incredibly true for Tennessee fans
"It doesn't take talent to hustle."
"There is no lazier or more pleasant pastime than watching good fungoes hit, unless it is catching them." -George Plimpton
"There is no time to think about the right way to make a play and then make the play. You just have to do it." -Bill Freehan
"Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I will be? The ball park." -Harry Caray
"If someone tells you to take your base, you take your base." -Robert Benson
"The only perfect pleasure we ever knew." -Clarence Darrow
"That's the true harbinger of spring; not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball." -Bill Veeck
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." -Roger Hornsby
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball."
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around." -Jim Bouton
"...now he looks over some low stuff unworthy of him and then, uncoiling, sends one out, straight on a rising line, over the center-field wall, no cheap Fenway shot, but all of it, the physicss as elegant as the arc the ball describes." -A. Bartlett Giamatti
"I was counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and it's deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight." -A. Bartlett Giamatti
"The game begins in the spring, when everythings else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soons as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilights, when you need it most, it stops." -A. Bartlett Giamatti
"Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and thre green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home." -A. Bartlett Giamatti
"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." -Chris Chambliss
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." -Sandy Koufax
"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball." -Mickey Mantle
"I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike." -Jim Kern
"The main idea is to win." -John J. McGraw
"Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect." -Lou Brock
"I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits." -Pete Rose
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." -Rogers Hornsby
"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him with Johnny Bench." -Sparky Anderson
"If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much space." -No Fear
"The speed of the pitch. The hum of the ball. The crack of the bat. Baseball is not a pastime. Picnics are a pastime." -No Fear
