Hitting Home Run

Famous quotes containing the words hitting, home and/or run:

“Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader’s mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can’t help hitting it.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Still as they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)