Ruth Quotes - Page 2

• For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Running, Home

  "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Tree, Hell

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• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Dirt, Parks

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• Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

  David Letterman

  Sunday, Awards, Actors

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• Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

  David Letterman

  Benches, Tebow, Has Beens

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• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drawing, Justice, Speech

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• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Rome

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• Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.

  Fiona Walker

  Uplifting, Real, Writing

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• The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.

  Waite Hoyt

  Children, Daddy, Wife

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• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Sparks, Favourite

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?

  Michael Kenna

  Thinking, Style, Signatures

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• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, College

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Pretty Woman, Doubt

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• Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Records, Break

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• When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
  name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

  Mark McGwire

  Blow, Names, People

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• When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

  Heywood Broun

  Baseball, Feet, Together

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• Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Lucky, Babe

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• Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Good Man, And Love

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

  Winona Ryder

  Baby, Years, Special

  "Freed Winona: Ryder On Her Troubled Past, ‘Iceman’ Present and Ruth Gordon Future". Interview with Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

  Artie Lange

  Sports, Baseball, Couple

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• I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Hero, Babe

  "Marine Cpl. Nicholas Kimmel, Triple-Amputee Veteran, Throws Strike At MLB World Series Game 2", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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