#raves

God owns heaven but He craves the earth. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#earth #god #heaven #owns

In spring training prior to his 1995 rookie season, Chipper was already so confident in who he was as a player that he famously deadpanned to veteran slugger Fred McGriff, after the Crime Dog grounded into an inning-ending double play, these two words: “Rally killer.” His confidence carried over to the field, just as it had since he began playing as a kid—he batted .265, and he led all rookies with 23 home runs, 87 runs, and 86 RBIs. Hideo Nomo was Rookie of the Year for the Dodgers, but Chipper and the Braves were World Champions. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball #chipper-jones #home

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#graves #africa

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. ↗

— Dan Wells

#building #gravestone #apocalypse

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#already #body #cigarettes #craves #three

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#boston #braves #casey #did #ever

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. ↗

— Aristotle

#braves #cowardice #death #does #escape

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins. ↗

— Danny Bautista

#best #braves #chance #could #feel