Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Grantly Dick-Read

Quote by Grantly Dick-Read

Work

Childbirth Without Fear

This book offers strategies and information to help expectant mothers navigate the childbirth experience with reduced fear and anxiety, focusing on education and empowerment. more

Author

Grantly Dick-Read
Grantly Dick-Read

Grantly Dick-Read was an individual active in the early 20th century, whose profession and category remain unknown. His life and achievements are not well-documented, and thus limited information is available about him. more

You May Also Like

“What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.”

“Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.”