"So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions."

-- Rafer Johnson

#Kids Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Competition Quotes

“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
“Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.”
“... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.”
“The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.”
“You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.”
“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”
“No man can be stronger than his destiny.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.24, Rutgers University Press
“War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.”

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