Wilma Rudolph Famous Quotes & Sayings

I love what I do and I am surrounded by some incredible people. — Vanessa Hudgens

That's the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you're not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don't deserve it. — Sara Quin

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. — Kiana Tom

Lord knew, her brood were wicked enough that they didn't need the help of mistletoe. It was in their blood, and sadly, not a trait taken from her husband's side.

-Lady Rochester. His Wicked Seduction — Lauren Smith

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us. — James Carroll

The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a "right time" for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now! — Paul Gibbons

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. — Don Yaeger

The wolf demands her mate. But the woman loathes the man. — Lisa Kessler

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment. — James Wolk

It's not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive at the restart — Mumford & Sons

I'm real easy-going. — Prince

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve. — Brother Andrew

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that. — Wilma Rudolph

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property. — Theodore Roosevelt

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world. — Wilma Rudolph

Winter? She traced a circle on his breastbone, her touch — Elizabeth Hoyt