Cubs Quotes - Page 5

• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  Jack Brickhouse

  Games, White, Darkness

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• My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Mother, Hair

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• In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'

  Kevin Barry

  Teenager, Kids, Cities

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Suicide, Baby, Blow

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  Edward Abbey

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Grizzlies

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

  Dustin Poirier

  Sleep, Thinking, Wake Up

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• All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

  George Will

  Baseball, Wedding Day, Remember

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• I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

  Emmylou Harris

  Thinking, Soul, Chicago

  "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.

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