Gracious Winner Quotes & Sayings

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller. — Matt Czuchry

He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their conversation had gone.
"Yeah. He was very generous about it all."
"I think it's charming that he's a good winner."
"He is a good winner. He's even gracious when he's gotten the raw end of things." Like a knee to the royal jewels, for example. — Kiera Cass

The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words. — Laurence Fishburne

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly

There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered. — Lauren F. Winner

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. — Joe Namath

Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero and a daughter's first love. — Anonymous

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice. — B.K.S. Iyengar

and low-life cable network producers, who have never had a thought in their heads that did not come from something else they saw on cable television, are so unthreatened by me that they feel safe stealing my stuff and claiming to have had sudden strokes of genius. — Pete Dexter