Top 15 Stickball Quotes
#1. When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
Sid Luckman
#2. Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
John Calvin
#3. The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.
Tank Abbott
#4. Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids ... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.
Jerry Doyle
#5. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.
Amit Ray
#6. The only advice I have for youth is to date outside your race. I just think it's so cute when I see little kids in interracial relationships; it makes me feel like I'm watching a commercial.
Daniel Tosh
#7. When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.
Christina Stead
#8. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
Ernie Harwell
#9. Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?"
The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands.
"Mmmmmm mmm mmm," protested Jack.
Frank Beddor
#10. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.
Plutarch
#11. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
George Gordon Byron
#12. I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.
Lisa Leslie
#13. If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.
Rene Balcer
#14. We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
Bob Cousy
#15. Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
Darell Hammond
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