Roger Bannister Quotes

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 23, 1929

Topics

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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

Jim Walsh

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Sounding bitter is not a good look. Less so if you're retired.

Andre Ward

GoodYouLookBitterLessRetired

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

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I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.

John Williams

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The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

Steve Buyer

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My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.

Sid Bernstein

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I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

Roberto Duran

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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

GoodHumorPeopleWorldLookingSay

When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli

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Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza

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I just love dialects; they're really fun.

Cory Michael Smith

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We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Clint Eastwood

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