Quotes About Tennis Rackets

#1. I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.

Sylvia Plath

#2. But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.

Carol Vorvain

#3. The time will come when we ourselves are disliked or misunderstood, or strangers, different from our judges in race or class or creed, and if their sense of justice depends upon their passion rather than their morality, who is to speak for us then, or defend our right to the truth?

Anne Perry

#4. When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

Shane Claiborne

#5. If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Auguste Rodin

#6. He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Ann Brashares

#7. I ask all those who hope to one day work for the good of humanity: never forget that even if you deliver up your body to be burned, you gain nothing if you have not Love. Nothing!

Paulo Coelho

#8. I wish I felt self-conscious about my hair, but truth be told, I look hella cute with psycho hair.

Tarryn Fisher

#9. In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Zachary Lazar

#10. Rule over your mind or ignorance will rule over it.
Rule over your heart or fear will rule over it.
Rule over your soul or evil will rule over it.
Rule over your life or others will rule over it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

Stokely Carmichael

#12. Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

Glen Cook

#13. I feel like I buried you in my pocket when I should have held you in my hand.

Rhys Ford

#14. Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

#15. There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

Alexandra Fuller

#16. It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.

Richard Wilbur