Baseball Metaphor Quotes

#1. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

David James Duncan

#2. When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

T.F. Hodge

#3. I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.

Junius Williams

#4. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Francis Bacon

#5. Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Harrison Ford

#6. It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

Paul Simon

#7. You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

Robert Jordan

#8. A friend is someone you can lean on.

Snoopy

#9. I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

Hulk Hogan

#10. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

#11. So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

Condoleezza Rice

#12. Although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

Steve Jones

#13. But Thou who fillest all things, fillest Thou them with Thy whole self? or, since all things cannot contain Thee wholly, do they contain part of Thee? and all at once the same part? or each its own part, the greater more, the smaller less?

Augustine Of Hippo

#14. With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.

Joan Rivers

#15. For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

C. Wagner

#16. Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

Stephen Collins

#17. When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

Marilynne Robinson

#18. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Emmett Tyrrell

#19. But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest