Albatross Quote by Bill Veeck Download Open image “Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.” — Bill Veeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Albatross Culture Growth Necks Progress Tradition
If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on. — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant be done. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and… — Bill Veeck Copy Share
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with… — John Bush Copy Share Image
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare… — Martin Amis Copy Share
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to… — Leon Kass Copy Share
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/irvine-welsh-843_agents_i-don-t-see-trainspotting-as-an-albatros_7750.jpg)
