A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#art #believe #building #create #drive

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#confined #decree #doctrine #left #lust

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#comes #performer #public #responsibility #social

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#american league #ever #i #league #president

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#set #undergone #whole

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#both #experience #game #human #human experience

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#brothers #children #college #families #feel

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#expunge #going #here #i #must

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#act #civil #civil society #heart #liberal