If the family were a container, it would be a nest, an enduring nest, loosely woven, expansive, and open. If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable—each segment distinct. If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. If the family were a sport, it would be baseball: a long, slow, nonviolent game that is never over until the last out. If the family were a building, it would be an old but solid structure that contains human history, and appeals to those who see the carved moldings under all the plaster, the wide plank floors under the linoleum, the possibilities.
Quotes about Sport
Source: Family and Politics, ch. 2 (1983).
Contributed by: Asavari Honavar.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
Contributed by: Christopher Nettles.
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democracy is not a spectator sport.
Contributed by: joel serino.
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