Robbie Kearns quotes

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.
-- Robbie Kearns

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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.