Russell Baker Quotes

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker

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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

N. R. Narayana Murthy
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke
- Past
- Ocean
- Creating
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

Sam Shepard
- Writing
- Me
- Acting
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

Ira Sachs
- Art
- Nature
- Economics
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

Jacob deGrom
- Good
- Home
- Couple
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

Tamra Davis
- People
- Time
- School