Ripken Foundation Quotes

#1. Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. That's something I learned from both my stepdad and my grandfather - that there is a thing called chivalry, and it doesn't have to die with the birth of the Internet. The way I see it, if you're asking a girl out on a date, it's only right to do it in a way that she can hear your voice.

Justin Timberlake

#3. Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

Leslie Ford

#4. Shut your trap, boy. You are hereby disinherited. Davies! I want a new will.

Julie Klassen

#5. She smelled of spice and forbidden thoughts.

Kate Danley

#6. If you are ever attacked in the street do not shout 'help!', shout 'Fire!'. People adore fires and always come rushing. Nobody will come if you shout 'help.

Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

#7. A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.

Charlotte Chandler

#8. Too much schooling ruins a woman; everyone knows that. It gives a woman a big head and she will start to insult her husband. What kind of wife will that be?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

Winston Churchill

#10. The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

Pete Sampras