Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.
Katie Taylor
Recitation: by Male by Female
I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
Megan Smith
LearningScienceMoneySchoolActive
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Meriwether Lewis
WomanChildMedicineBackSheCorn
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Stephen Hawking
TravelStepSpaceFirst StepFlight
I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.
Shura
WorkHomeMeControlAmericaDoing
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.
Tony Judt
PoliticalHealthcareInevitableClass
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
Ron Perlman
LifeAgeTimeLooking BackLooking
Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.
Jon Lester
KnowledgeExperienceFaceInformation
To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.
Johnny Weir
WhiteI CanGoWantHonestWear
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
Dolly Parton
ManSongLovedOldAlwaysOhio
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers
WomenJusticeFightResearchProtect
I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
Christopher Golden
AnarchyFanSonsHuge FanHuge
I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.
Chris Robinson
DayThinkEnd Of The DayEndLook
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Katie Taylor