James Naismith Quotes

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 6, 1861 - November 28, 1939

Topics

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You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.

Joe Klein

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I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.

John Bolton

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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Andrea Arnold

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Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.

Anderson Cooper

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I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Angelina Jolie

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Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.

Jeff Sessions

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The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.

Jeff Goodell

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My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

Amy Tan

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With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Roy Romer

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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

Chris Ofili

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Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Chuck Schumer

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