"It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs."

-- Kristin Armstrong

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.”
“Talents constitute our very essence.”
“Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.”
“People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.”
“Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.”
“I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.
“As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.”
“Mothers are generally starvers or feeders”

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