"We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation."

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Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

Gerry Lindgren

#Running Quotes #Passion Quotes #Track Quotes

“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.”
“I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.116, Penguin
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
“Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.”
“Pie canâ€™t compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, itâ€™s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebodyâ€™s drunk in the kitchen.”
“The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.”
“For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.”

Source : "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.”

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