Quotes About America's Pastime

#1. I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

#2. Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Pete Sampras

#3. Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Charles Colson

#4. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#5. A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Jon Postel

#6. I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Chuck Klosterman

#7. It's starting, she thought. Just like the dream said.

Rick Riordan

#8. He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

Kelly Corrigan

#9. I love performing.

Lee DeWyze

#10. No one keeps himself waiting; and yet the greatest cure for anger is to wait, so that the initial passion it engenders may die down, and the fog that shrouds the mind may subside, or become less thick.

Seneca.

#11. As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any president. If not brilliant or eloquent, he was courageous and principled. The invisible something he brought to the office was character.

David McCullough

#12. Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

George Will

#13. Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

Andy Stanley

#14. Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Walter Lippmann

#15. Yay, when it came to faces, pretty lies was better'n scabbin' true

David Mitchell

#16. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

James E. Faust

#18. Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Sarah Dessen

#19. This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

Matt Taibbi