Wilma Rudolph Quotes

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 23, 1940 - November 12, 1994

Topics

MotherWalkMeDoctorNeverAgain

I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his weight, too. We would go for a ride on his motorcycle on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make pizza together, or go get ice cream. I quickly learned that food equalled love and attention.

Jillian Michaels

LoveFatherMorningFoodRidePizza

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

John Burroughs

NatureWomenCharacterBestMind

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia

LifeDeathYouMatterComparison

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams

MoreRightNationHangNecessity

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Trisha Yearwood

MomSickCareYouNobodyYour

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeFuturePastCreativeThinking

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Tony Buzan

I AmPoetryFirstPoetBooksFour

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

Tom Scholz

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Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

Mohamed El-Erian

MoreCashOwnDryGlobalSimply

In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.

Dolores O'Riordan

HomeMusicTimeHappyPeopleBaby

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

Brian Greene

EnergyYouFindMatterMoreFirst

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

Brandon Boyd

ParentsMomPersonLuckyAlways

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