Satchel Paige Quotes
I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
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If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
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An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.
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The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
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How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?
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Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.
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I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
