Mike Lowell Quotes

#1. The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#3. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Mike Lowell

#4. I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

Mike Lowell

#5. Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

Mike Lowell

#6. I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

Kathryn Stockett

#7. You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Daniel Keys Moran

#8. I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

Mike Lowell

#9. I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

Emilio Estevez

#10. When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Rumi

#11. I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.

Mike Lowell

#12. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Karina Halle

#13. Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Jean Cocteau

#14. If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Mike Lowell

#15. All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

Mike Lowell

#17. I love Toronto, It's the best city.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

#18. The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Do you always curse in Danish?" he asked.
She shook her head and flashed him a smile. "No," she replied. "I can curse in seventeen languages - and I can tell you to fuck me in twenty-four.

M.J. Lawless

#20. Perhaps the good Samaritan was lean and lank, and found it hard to live. Who knows!

Charles Dickens

#21. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.

William Hazlitt

#22. Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.

John Wycliffe