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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Start
  • Old
  • Late

• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• 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.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
  • Award
  • Honoured

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Sometimes
  • Young
  • Old

• When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • Years
  • Christmas
  • Old

• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Old

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Ancient

• When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Kind
  • Years
  • Old

• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Think
  • Past
  • Old

• It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Crazy
  • Old
  • Just

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Attention
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Old
  • Big
  • Confident

• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Old
  • Grow
  • Quit

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Jesus
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Process

• If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Years
  • Old

• Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Trying
  • End
  • Please Everyone

• I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • People
  • Girl

• At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

  

  C. H. Douglas
  • Time
  • Change
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Bible
  • Old
  • Goat