"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment."

--

Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports Quotes #Religious Quotes #Sentimental Quotes

“I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.”
“How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?”
“If I love something, I wear it to death!”
“I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.”
“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”

Source : Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).
“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”

Source : Charles D'Ambrosio (2006). “The Dead Fish Museum”, p.62, Vintage
“I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart”
“Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.”

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