Hank Aaron Quotes

• Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed "Hammer", or "Hammerin' Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. 
• Aaron had seven siblings, including Tommie Aaron, who later played in MLB with him.
• Hank Aaron's number 44 was retired by the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976.

Hank Aaron Quotes

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

On the field, blacks have been able to be supergiants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

James A. Michener Quotes

• February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997
• James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 books.
• Michener began his writing career during World War II.
• Michener was married three times. In 1935, he married Patti Koon. In 1948, they divorced, and the same year Michener married his second wife, Vange Nord.Michener met his third wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, at a luncheon in Chicago

James A. Michener Quotes

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Gertrude Stein Quotes

• February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946
• Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays.
• In 1933, Stein published a kind of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. 
• Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
• Parents-Daniel and Amelia Stein.

Gertrude Stein Quotes

We are always the same age inside.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.