Babe Quotes - Page 2

• I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Trying, Records

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• I am a babe for a living.

  Gabrielle Reece

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• Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wine, Water, Tea

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• I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Offensive, Blokes, Flattered

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• As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

  Robert Southwell

  Heart, Eye, Winter

  "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

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• He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

  Bill Dickey

  Men, Balls, Ruth

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• I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Running, Believe

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• I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

  Eddie Mathews

  Years, People, Three

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• The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love You, Heart, Humble

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• That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

  Victoria Laurie

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Able, Turns

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• Why do all men have to suck? I knew you all sucked and still I stupidly fell in love with one of you. Why? Why would I be such a masochist? You pour your heart out to a man and what does he do? ‘Could you change the channel, babe?’ You’re all pathetically cold. You don’t care about anyone but yourselves! (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Men, Doe

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.290, Macmillan

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• I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we’re all animals here. And we all have a killer’s instinct.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Animal, Pirate

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.215, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

  Jay Michaelson

  Girl, Country, Song

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• That depends on the man. I like breasts myself. A nice rack goes a long way in getting me to do just about anything. Even stupid things. (Phobos) You are so offensive! (Delphine) Oh, please, I’m ten thousand years old. You’re lucky I’m not more chauvinistic than I am. Babe, I’ve come a long way. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Stupid, Men

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• Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Anxiety, Despair

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• The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

  Seth Rogen

  Ruth, Currents

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• God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Mother, Passion, Heart

  Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.28, Penguin

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• Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Giving Up, Communication

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• Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His apartment got blown up, and I need to find him.' And I should do this why?' Because you like me.' There was a full beat of silence. 'I do,' Ranger said. 'I like you a lot. Sometimes I'm not sure why. Give me a couple minutes.

  Janet Evanovich

  I Like You, Couple, Giving

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• You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Bottom, Bad Man

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• This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Jobs, Law, Rangers

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• You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Rome, Play

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• Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Morning, Stars, Children

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• Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

  David Bowie

  Eye, Gun, Space

  Song: Moonage Daydream, 1972

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