"Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos,"

-- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#Running Quotes #Parent Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
“There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.494, Open Road Media
“My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.”

Source : "Dan Quayle's Son Wins Congressional Primary". www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.
“Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.”
“There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.”
“The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.”
“The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.”
“Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?”

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