#shine

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#bag #baseball #book #clearest #color

I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights. ↗

— John Hunter

#bugs #came #city #cos #country

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#before #characters #exploring #gets #give

This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine. ↗

— Roger Knapman

#full #party #shine #stars #their

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. ↗

— James Wolcott

#believe #best #bring #collections #enjoy

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #sunshine #friendship

About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending.” - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #gay-marriage #love-story #norman-sunshine #home

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#flower #freedom #just #just living #little

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#confusing #dressed #get #hail #hot