Joe Nye

Joe Nye is a former freelance sportswriter for the Newark Post and News Journal who has followed the Delaware sports scene since he attended his first Blue Hens game in 1971. A graduate of Glasgow High and the University of Delaware, he is a recruiter with the Delaware Army National Guard and he and his wife MaryLou have two children, Jackson and Sierra.

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Delaware Sports Legends: Blue Hens, Hornets, High Schools and More

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There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare

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Joe Nye

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