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Laurie Hernandez Quotes

I tell everyone that I'm 5 feet-1 inch tall, but I think I'm technically 5 feet. My mom says she's 4 feet 11 inches, and I'm barely taller than her.

Laurie Hernandez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: June 9, 2000

Topics

Mom Feet Think Tall She Tell

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

Anna Maxwell Martin

Ugly People Me Interesting Mean Get

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Robert Gottlieb

Life Work Hard Work Kindness Age

In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.

Great Time Long Over Thanks Apples

I kind of have to bite my tongue sometimes with my lyrics.

Tongue Sometimes Kind Bite Lyrics

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

Good People Career Know Plans Some

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

Baseball Blame Helmet Go Games Dirt

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Music Software Days Different Make

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Life Strength Live Heart Myself Me

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

Time Reflection Day Rest Think Week

I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.

Experience New York Think You Down

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Life Poverty Go Want Living Hard

I'm still obsessed with the beach whenever I'm home; when I'm on the beach, it feels like home to me.

Home Beach Me Still Like Obsessed

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