"The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens."

-- Bill Toomey

#Games Quotes #Cities Quotes #Athens Quotes

“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.”
“We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.”
“He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.”

Source : J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.89, Kregel Publications
“My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.”
“If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.”
“If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.”

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