"I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes."

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Source : Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

Victoria Pendleton

#Sports Quotes #Brother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

Source : "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.
“I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.”
“A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154
“If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.”
“A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.”
“If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.”
“The world becomes more rewarding when you let yourself look beyond what you're searching for.”
“There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.”

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