Top 1200 Home Plate Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

If you know what its taken to get there, you appreciate it so much more than if youre given it all on a plate.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

I do not agree with Thomas Wolfe... about anything. You can go home again as long as you don't expect home to be what it was when you left it. Or you don't expect yourself to be what you were when you left home.

Home is home wherever you grow up generally speaking. Unless you're one of those people who always wants to get out of a small town and do something bigger with your life, which I always did but I always wanted to come back, so home is home and its a great place for me to come back and escape the hustle and bustle of the life that I live.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

If I had to describe my diet in one word, it would be 'colorful.' I always think about adding color to the plate.

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

For most, the largest asset is their home. This becomes a sentimental issue, I know, but if you're holding on to a home that you can no longer afford - or you need the liquidity - you need to think about solutions. One might be to bring in a tenant or roommate; a more drastic measure is to sell the home and downsize.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

My job involves sharing food and the stories behind the plate, in part, via social media.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.'

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of no other place than home where more happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

There's no way you can go home and learn lines, because you need to go home and sleep. So I've figured out systems. I order two lunches so I can eat dinner before I leave work, so when I get home, I can just go to bed.