Brotherband Quotes

#1. Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.

Peter Kreeft

#2. In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

#3. I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. A foolish way to get around." Hal smiled. "If the gods had meant us to ride horses, they never would have given us ships.

John Flanagan

#5. So we've written a saga," he said. "The Saga of Hal and the Heron Brotherband." "Oh Gorlog help us," Hal muttered.

John Flanagan

#6. Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman

#7. I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

Rollie Fingers

#8. Hal: " ... Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.

John Flanagan