"My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Running Quotes #School Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Why can't love be a fairy tale?”
“If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.”
“In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.”
“It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.”
“If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.”

Source : Interview with Munem Wasif, www.chobimela.org. November 24, 2014.
“I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.”
“Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.”

Source : "Ricky Van Veen Dishes On Notional, Silverman and Wintour's Daughter" by Erin Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. November 25, 2009.
“Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural systemâ€¦. The heart must have something to cling toâ€¦”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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