Throwing Shot Put Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history. — Barack Obama

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music. — Prince Royce

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion. — Kayla Mueller

. . . you've got to do something about her," Aunty was saying. "You've let things go on too long, Atticus, too long." "I don't see any harm in letting her go out there. Cal'd look after her there as well as she does here." Who was the "her" they were talking about? My heart sank: me. I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately. "Atticus, — Harper Lee

At the high school a pretty girl strolled across the parking lot to her black stallion, let her cigarette dangle from her lips while she put on her helmet, adjusted her goggles. Throwing a slender white leg over the side she jacked her little backside up and down a few times, exciting the steed. Now she came down on his back and he squatted, moaning to the soft squeeze of her hand, then at her sudden clutch shot out fast between the press of her knees. Claude looked down at his shoes as they passed, having seen nothing. But he glanced up in time to watch them glide off under the next streetlamp, the gleaming beast appearing almost languid with release, very pleased with himself and with the girl who clung to his back, small and stiff and unsatisfied.
She had been noticed: everywhere along the way the leaning people looked after her as though wondering if the new week had finally begun, then they looked at one another, then back at nothing. — Douglas Woolf

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius — Eoin Colfer

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it. — Rita Ora

Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach ... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going. — Tanya Masse

Only when we acknowledge ourselves as we really are can we begin to take inventory of the physical, mental, and emotional clutter that no longer serves us. Then we can choose to no longer judge ourselves for what we've become and focus on who we'd like to be. — Sadiqua Hamdan

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa) — Lucretius

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring. — Justina Chen Headley

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents. — Jan Karon

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing. — Mary Kom

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly. — Julianna Baggott

Slowly the pale
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human. — Denise Levertov