Top 43 David Wright Quotes
#1. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.
David McCullough
#2. After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.
N. T. Wright
#3. I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.
David Wright
#4. On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in western Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer.
David McCullough
#5. Most of my friends are people I've known since I was a kid. I don't have an entourage or anything.
David Wright
#6. Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.
David Wright
#7. Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".
David L. Cohn
#8. There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.
David Letterman
#9. I take positives out of negatives all the time.
David Wright
#10. People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.
David Wright
#11. Sitting in that room, talking to Mr. Wright, I knew I had to get all of my identities in order. I realized how many identities I had, at a time when I really should have been focusing on having one.
David Levithan
#12. I don't care how much I'm talked about or hyped. It's still up to me to go out and perform.
David Wright
#13. Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.
David Liss
#14. She was going to go to her room,munch on chocolate,then collapse into bed.
And if her upstairs neighbors decided to talk about who the daddy was or cry again about how much David was loved,she'd go up there and give them somthing to really bloody cry about.
Suzanne Wright
#15. I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.
David Wright
#16. I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
David Cross
#17. I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York
David Wright
#18. For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be "conquerors of the air" and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief.
David McCullough
#19. It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911
David McCullough
#20. If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned.
David Wright
#21. I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.
David Wright
#22. To me, the fun part of hitting is the thinking part. It's the game within the game.
David Wright
#23. If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT
David McCullough
#24. Frank Lloyd Wright ... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
#25. There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.
David Wright
#26. Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.
David Wright
#27. You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg
#28. No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
David Gilmour
#29. Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.
David Wright
#30. She's not great at communicating day-to-day, but when we finally do get into arguments, she has a laser-guided missile system that cuts right through my bullshit, and suddenly, I'm the one left floundering, searching for the right words.
David W. Wright
#31. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.
David McCullough
#32. I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.
David Wright
#33. Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.
David Wright
#34. Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old.
David McCullough
#35. I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.
David Wright
#36. As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
David Wright
#37. I'm always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.
David Wright
#38. I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.
David Wright
#39. When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.
David Wright
#40. When you don't win I think you have to evaluate everybody.
David Wright
#41. The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.
David Wright
#43. It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.
David Wright
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