Famous quotes containing the words player, reaches and/or base:
“If women were umpiring none of this [rowdyism] would happen. Do you suppose any ball player in the country would step up to a good-looking girl and say to her, You color- blind, pickle-brained, cross-eyed idiot, if you dont stop throwing the soup into me Ill distribute your features all over you countenance! Of course he wouldnt.”
—Amanda Clement (18881971)
“O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized mehis grasp is so cold!
Sore trembled the father; he spurrd thro the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, claspd to his bosom, the infant was dead.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17991832)
“The desire of most parents is first and foremost to do what is best for their children. Every interview with a mother or father confirms this, every letter written by a parent breathes this deep-seated wish, I hope I am doing the right thing for my child. This is real and honest, and at the very base of parenthood.”
—Irma Simonton Black (20th century)