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Grace Abbott Quotes

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939

Topics

Responsibility Baby Stand Wheel Hold

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Joe Posnanski

Sports Time Writing You Write Big

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Jo Beverley

Losing Border Think Reality Down Up

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Soul World Book Free Cannot Dogma

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Maureen Dowd

Enjoy Exercise You Tiger Meal Last

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

Steve Jones

Soccer Military Watch Like Channel

The Spanish league has better individual players than the German league. However, in Germany, there are more teams that are uncomfortable to play against because they are more aggressive than teams in Spain.

Toni Kroos

Better Uncomfortable Play More Spain

When you're young, you want things to happen right away. And sometimes that doesn't always develop in the way you want it to. But my thing was to continue to work, in whatever element I could.

Ron Cephas Jones

Work You Young Sometimes Want Way

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

Mikheil Saakashvili

You Create More Insecure Prone

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

Don Rickles

Me Tough Talking Difficult Whatever

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

Douglas Rushkoff

Life Food Money Value People You

I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

Good Romantic Want Way Songs

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Ricky Williams

Sports People Think Reality Lose