"To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London."

-- Paula Radcliffe

#Country Quotes #Team Quotes #Home Quotes

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

Source : On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46
“Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.”
“Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast, .. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris (Hilton) is definitely one of those people.”

Source : "Tara Reid visits Paris and Paris". www.today.com. August 5, 2005.
“For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?”
“It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building.”
“President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.”

Source : Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.
“Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.”

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