Top 50 Ruth Quotes

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

‘Basic Black with Pearls’ contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’ and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ The scholar Ruth Panofsky, who writes extensively about Weinzweig, sees echoes of George Eliot.

We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother’s newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

Don’t worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Personally, until Mike Trout came into the league I thought I would be in the conversation for best player in the game. Then he screwed that up for everybody – Babe Ruth and Ted Williams included. He has ruined it for everyone.

I don’t think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread – Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

Life’s short, so if you’re going to spend months doing something, it’s gotta be pretty special… But I’m very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

I get so upset about news stories and the cruelty in the world. I can’t process it. And I just think there’s enough of it out there. It doesn’t need me to add to it. Nobody needs Ruth Jones’s take on nasty.

Too bad integration didn’t come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That’s why, you look back, and – not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys – they didn’t play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn’t understand and didn’t know where it was coming from.

I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant.

I think there’s as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel – in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language – as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Ruth Gordon was such a delight to watch in ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ after I had first seen her in ‘Harold and Maude.’ And Ellen Burstyn is a hero of mine from ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,’ The Exorcist,’ ‘Requiem For A Dream.’ These women impacted me greatly as an actress.

I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring.

Why shouldn’t we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.

Don’t compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I’ve been doing – keep taking care of business.

It’s the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

I read the horoscope, and when I like it I smile and when I don’t like it, I say, ‘Dr. Ruth Westheimer, what’s the matter with you?’

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.

The early giants of modern dance – Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis – barely left traces of their art.

I tie my wedding ring around my neck with an old shoelace. It’s to remind me of why I play cricket: for my family – my wife Ruth and my boys Sam and Luca.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels – Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges – is in our own self-interest. That’s where the pool of talent is – and also of fans.

Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

I don’t want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I’m not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn’t replacing Babe Ruth.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

My dad is to professional wrestling what Babe Ruth was to baseball – he’s an icon. Working with him and having him around as I try to get this new character over with the fans has been a major help.

Honestly, I love Ruth’s Chris.

Ruth’s Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

I thought I’d have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we’ve seen that type almost disappear.

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth’s home run record? No.

Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don’t think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

But our writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – it was very much in her mind. After we had done ‘A Room With a View’ and ‘Maurice,’ she urged us to think about ‘Howards End’ as another candidate for adaptation.

I’ll go into Ruth’s Chris. They’ll have my room in the back and I’d go to pay the bill and somebody had paid the bill already. That happened multiple times. That’s the love people give you.

Basketball’s eras are defined by teams – Celtics, Lakers, Bulls – and baseball’s epochs are defined by players – Ruth, Robinson, Mantle – but with football, it’s the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.