A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcu s Garvey       The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. – Homaro Cantu     A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. – Georges Rouault     It is remarkable how closely the history of the…

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. -Reggie Jackson       A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. -Reggie Jackson     Please God, let me hit one. I’ll tell everybody you did it. -Reggie Jackson     October: that’s when they pay off for playing ball. -Reggie Jackson     I didn’t come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me. -Reggie Jackson     After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.…

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw Jerzy   Lec True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut     You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns       Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman     Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan     Old age…