"Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster."

-- Apolo Ohno

#Growing Up Quotes #Cities Quotes #Competition Quotes

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
“I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.”
“All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”
“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.”

Source : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
“I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.”

Source : "Gabriel Basso Makes It Look Easy". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2011.
“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.”

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