Top 19 Ebbets Field Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ebbets Field

#1. We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

Duke Snider

#2. It was a terrible psychic blow ... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?

Joe Flaherty

#3. I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

Larry King

#4. Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

Duke Snider

#5. For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

George Vecsey

#6. The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes

Willie Mays

#7. Holy Mother Flip Whistle

Lavinia Urban

#8. As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Jordan Peele

#9. what we think of when we envision the human past is partly a myth that tells more about where we think we're going wrong with our own lives today than anything that happened thousands and thousands of years ago.

Brenna Hassett

#10. Come, come, whoever you are, come.
Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come.
Ours is not a convent of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again.

Rumi

#11. You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. We are sons of God
And must be even as he.

Sri Aurobindo

#13. Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

Dana Brunetti

#14. Christian magazine Sojourners, likes to point out that the Bible contains more than three thousand references to alleviating poverty - enough reason, he thinks, for making this a central moral issue for Christians.

Peter Singer