James Russell
James Russell
Left-handed relief pitcher known for an average fastball and good slider who made his MLB debut in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1986
CityCincinnati, OH
crow prophecy grans
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
squares atmosphere public-opinion
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
onward-and-upward progress ancient
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
shadow breaking-silence watches
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
government race world
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
song spring gun
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
believe curiosity principles
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
men soil buried
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
men citizens made
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
men race faces
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
memories giving perception
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
heaven may asking
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
failure long tails
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
blood feet dancing
How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.