The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
Do me a favor. " "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?
Secrecy is for losers.
An attitude will give you heft.