I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much no...nsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind's moody madness--... Within, the firelight's ruddy glow, And childhood's nest of gladness. The magic words shall hold thee fast: Thou shalt not heed the raving blast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, of... losing control, of helplessness, of failure. Sometimes they act bold, to counteract their imperious yearnings to remain children. They are impulsive, impetuous, moody, disagreeable, overdemanding, underappreciative. If you don't understand them, remember, they don't understand themselves most of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I must tell you, I was given to understand in my childhood, that the British island from which my forefathers came, was no lot...us-garden, no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round, no, but a cold foggy mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air, but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance; that their best parts were slowly revealed; their virtues did not come out until they quarrelled: they did not strike twelve the first time; good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action; that in prosperity they were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes,... Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown The country's singing strength thus brought together,... That though repressed and moody with the weather Was nonetheless there ready to be freed And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price on the wanted poster was a-going down, outlaw alias copped my stance... and moody greenhorns were making me dance; while my mouth's shooting iron got its chambers jammed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers often take children's negative feelings so personally that the moment they come back from work to a moody child, a whole c...hecklist appears before their eyes. "Was I rushed this morning? Did I forget to pack lunch right? Am I away too much?" This personalization of children's day to day moods (which I've found practically nonexistent in fathers) makes moms an easy target.... Within seconds, children pick up on your guilt and use it to gain special attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »