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I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that. ”
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing. ”
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. ”
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models. ”
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ”
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ”
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ”
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. ”
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. ”
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. ”