Pitcher's Mound Quotes

#1. Education is the miracle; I'm just the worker.

Taylor Mali

#2. That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.

Michael Eklund

#3. The rain washed away my pitcher's mound ... I'm a pitcher without a mound ... I'm a lost soul ... I'm like a politician out of office."
"Or a sailor without an ocean ... "
"Or a boy without a girl ...

Charles M. Schulz

#4. My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Eula Biss

#5. It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Richard Linklater

#6. I think I know what's wrong with you ... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound ... Does your stomach hurt now?"
"Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!"
"All right, now come down off the mound ... There ... Has it stopped hurting?"
"Yes ... Yes, I think it has!"
"There's your trouble ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#7. As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Babe Ruth

#8. I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

Adam Wainwright

#9. A witch cannot die until her familiars or imps are dead. If a witch desires to put an end to her suffering she must call each familiar by name and order it to die. Then, when the last is dead, she too will die. Greetwell Edward

Karen Maitland

#10. In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Rahm Emanuel

#11. I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

Saul Bellow

#12. Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...

George Eliot

#13. I'm just always looking for something that I've never done, or something that feels unique and special. A lot of it is gut and what you emotionally connect with, and that can be a variety of different things.

Elijah Wood

#14. A simple word study can also show the importance of being a disciple. For example, the words "Christian" and "believer," are only found roughly 30x combined in the New Testament, while the word "disciple" is found over 250x.

Joe Wyrostek

#15. To enjoy a stress free life, enjoy what you have-not what you think you deserve.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

David Novak

#17. If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.

Ted Trueblood

#18. You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.

Joan Bauer

#19. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

#20. It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

John Henry Newman

#21. Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Gaylord Perry

#22. Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.

Dennis Prager