Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

— Mary McGrory

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

— Mary McGrory

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and…

— Mary McGrory

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string…

— Mary McGrory

Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random…

— Mary McGrory

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

— Mary McGrory

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

— Mary McGrory

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly…

— Mary McGrory

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is…

— Mary McGrory

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should…

— Mary McGrory

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

— Mary McGrory

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

— Mary McGrory

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

— Mary McGrory

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or…

— Mary McGrory

If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear…

— Mary McGrory

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable…

— Mary McGrory

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden…

— Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

— Mary McGrory

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting…

— Mary McGrory