Renee Wallace

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”
― Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and ears

“But what he liked most of all about dogs was their innocence of human motives, the self-promoting stratagems and egotism, their affection unstaled by familiarity and reciprocity.”
― Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong: Now a Major TV series: A Canon Clement Mystery

“I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.”
― Satchel Paige

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
― Yogi Berra