girls with quotes

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. ~Mickey Mantle



At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato



The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov



Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood



Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry



Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind



But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. ~Mark Twain



You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The world is not divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. ~Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer



What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb



Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker



The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. ~Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers, 1942



Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown



The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. ~Author Unknown



Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand



It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui Keivom



Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson