“There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.”
Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
Book 1, Ch. 17
My Antonia (1918)
“There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.”
Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
“I'm learning to fly,
But I ain't got wings.
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Learning to Fly, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216
Memoirs (1993)
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
As Good as I Once Was, written with Scotty Emerick
Song lyrics, Honkytonk University (2005)
Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer
Better Than I Used to Be
Song lyrics, Emotional Traffic (2012)
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Major Michael Hogan, p. 172
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 17