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I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever. — David Plotz
I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that. — Astrid Lindgren
No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow. — Astrid Lindgren
I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run. — Gerry Lindgren
I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body. — Gerry Lindgren
Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special! — Gerry Lindgren
He's the strongest man in the world.'
'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that. — Astrid Lindgren
Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter! — Astrid Lindgren
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I hope you won't mind, my dear, if we take it," said Thunder Karlsson.
"Oh, not at all," said Pippi. "Of course not."
And with that, Blom went over and took out the suitcase.
"I hope you won't mind, my dear, if I take it back," said Pippi, as she climbed out of bed and went over to Blom. — Astrid Lindgren
If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race. — Gerry Lindgren
The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?"
"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"
"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet. — Astrid Lindgren
Pippi stroking his back. 'Bosh, that was a true fib,' she added. 'But if it was true, how could it be a fib? Perhaps when all's said and done, he really has been a butler in Sourabaya, after all! Well, if that's so, I know who's going — Astrid Lindgren
Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE. — Gerry Lindgren
As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?"
"M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?"
"Yes," said the girl.
"Medium large, not too tall and not too short?"
"Yes," said the girl.
"Black hat and black shoes?"
"Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly.
"No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly. — Astrid Lindgren
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside. — Astrid Lindgren
Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed. — Gerry Lindgren
Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go. — Gerry Lindgren
My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up. — Gerry Lindgren
I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race. — Gerry Lindgren
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren
A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own. — Torgny Lindgren
Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out. — Gerry Lindgren
I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can. — Gerry Lindgren
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense. — Astrid Lindgren
Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it? — Torgny Lindgren
I don't much like to do housework, you know. — Astrid Lindgren
I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running. — Gerry Lindgren
COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE. — Gerry Lindgren
Why did you save Park's life, was that so good?'
'I don't know if it was such a good thing to do,' said Jonathan. 'But there are things you have to do, otherwise you're not a human being, just a piece of dirt. I've said this to you before.'
'But what if he'd realized who you were?' I said. 'And they had caught you!'
'Well, then they would've caught Lionheart and not a piece of dirt,' said Jonathan. — Astrid Lindgren
I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic. — Gerry Lindgren
Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work. — Gerry Lindgren
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today. — Astrid Lindgren
When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know. — Gerry Lindgren
Instead, I ask you with all my heart, come back to Matt's fort with us now! It's not because I like you - don't think that, whatever you do! But, my daughter does - I know that now - and perhaps I can learn too. — Astrid Lindgren
I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can. — Astrid Lindgren
Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm! — Astrid Lindgren
I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people and placed them in reasonably realistic surroundings where they can live realistic lives, they start to fiddle about, they behave as if they had never before been in contact with real life, but had only lived in a fantasy world. They commit frightful crimes, they die and are resurrected, they ascend to heaven and allow themselves to be misled into all the foolishness the language happens to lead them to, till at last, with oaths and curses, they escape from the planned novel. — Torgny Lindgren
But I'm the strongest girl in the world, don't forget. — Astrid Lindgren
But I can't kill anyone,' said Jonathan, 'you know that Orvar!' 'Not even if it means your life?' asked Orvar. 'No, not even then,' said Jonathan. Orvar couldn't understand this and Mattias hardly could, either. 'If everyone were like you,' said Orvar, 'then evil would rule for all eternity!' But then I said that if everyone were like Jonathan, then there would be no evil. — Astrid Lindgren
Aren't you going to dry the floor?' asked Annika.
'Oh, no, it can dry in the sun,' answered Pippi. 'I don't think it will catch cold so long as it keeps moving. — Astrid Lindgren
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. — Astrid Lindgren
There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps. — Gerry Lindgren
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren
There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion. — Gerry Lindgren
After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent! — Gerry Lindgren
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. — Astrid Lindgren
Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything. — Gerry Lindgren
It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves. — Astrid Lindgren
Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful. — Astrid Lindgren
I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home. — Gerry Lindgren
Stories don't teach us to be good; it isn't as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting bravely or acting meanly, being cruel or being kind, and they leave it up to our own powers of empathy and imagination to make the connection with our own lives. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. It isn't like putting a coin in a machine and getting a chocolate bar; we're not mechanical, we don't respond every time in the same way ...
The moral teaching comes gently, and quietly, and little by little, and weighs nothing at all. We hardly know it's happening. But in this silent and discreet way, with every book we read and love, with every story that makes its way into our heart, we gradually acquire models of behaviour and friends we admire and patterns of decency and kindness to follow.
Philip Pullman from his Award Lecture, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Recipient 2005 — Philip Pullman
The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread. — Gerry Lindgren
Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race. — Gerry Lindgren
I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that instead of going to work out after school I went to the corner of Providence Ave at Crestline St. and picked up a bundle of 15 newspapers. — Gerry Lindgren
As we were walking along, Britta took her book out of her schoolbag and smelled it. She let all of us smell it. New books smell so good you can tell how much fun it's going to be to read them. — Astrid Lindgren
Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age. — Gerry Lindgren
The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set. — Gerry Lindgren
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody's imagination. — Astrid Lindgren
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. — Astrid Lindgren
This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction. — Gerry Lindgren
The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think they may all be disappointed at 3:20 or 3:30. But even if they never break 4-minutes they will have accomplished something DYNAMIC! They will have created the possibility than now does not exist. — Gerry Lindgren
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it. — Astrid Lindgren
Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it. — Gerry Lindgren
We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation. — Gerry Lindgren
Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die! — Gerry Lindgren
If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs. — Gerry Lindgren
If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous. — Gerry Lindgren
I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them. — Gerry Lindgren
What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good. — Astrid Lindgren
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life. — Astrid Lindgren
The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem. — Gerry Lindgren
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes. — Astrid Lindgren
Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner. — Gerry Lindgren
Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top. — Astrid Lindgren
When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty. — Gerry Lindgren
Justice is like an invisible creature that flees before us. As long as we keep chasing it, we have it. It's the constant seeking for law and justice that constitutes law and justice. . . . All confusion and disorder and disintegration is just semblance and illusion. Law and order endure in secret. Truth and justice are not a conjuring trick. — Torgny Lindgren
Set a master goal for your running and for your life. — Gerry Lindgren
Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away. — Elizabeth Falkner