top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
Standard
Customized
More
"I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money."
Money
"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued."
Pretty
"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
Nationality
"Sports and politics don't mix."
Politics
"I didn't get into skating to be famous."
Famous
"I have a very close friendship with the skaters."
Friendship
"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."
Race
"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."
Appearance
"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
Chance
"We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety."
Running
More
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
Author Name
Personal Development
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
Author Name
Personal Development
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page