Famous Track Runners Quotes & Sayings

I was born once.
The doctor was late.
I made my own way out.
The nurse slapped my insolence.
"Suffocate me!" I screamed, "I shall not recant. — Robert Skyler

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one. — Charles Darwin

When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them. — Eliphas Levi

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise. — Carlos Slim

And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind. — Terry Brooks

We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart. — Kate McGahan

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. — Jeffrey T. Borenstein

Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they've been told was true. Scientists are no different; they've just been told a lot more things. — Sylvain Neuvel

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm not on drugs, I'm just weird, — Alex Gaskarth

If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure. — Robert I. Sutton

The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory - just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth. — John Eldredge

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson

The normal economic system works itself. — James Salter