Americorps Logo Quotes

#1. You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

Haile Gebrselassie

#2. I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

#3. I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Duane Michals

#4. Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#5. But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, "God writes straight with crooked lines", and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing.

Elisabeth Elliot

#6. Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

Lisa Chaney

#7. Yep, that girl was as dead as you could get inside. But Scarlett Jo wasn't worried. Not really. Because sometimes a person has to die in order to really live.

Denise Hildreth Jones

#8. Rousseau introduced the idea of false needs, and showed how the systems we live in work against our growing up: they dazzle us with toys and bewilder us with so many trivial products that we are too busy making silly choices to remember that the adult ones are made by others.

Susan Neiman

#9. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Francis Bacon

#10. In all his writing he had tried to reconcile the words "reason," "logic" and "science" with the words "God," "faith" and "Qur'an," and he had not succeeded, even though he used with great subtlety the argument from kindness,

Salman Rushdie

#11. I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.

Brett Dennen

#12. She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie Tennant

Kylie Tennant

#13. Elder Spencer W. Kimball once said, "I rely upon that promise of the Lord that he will strengthen and empower me that I may be able to do this work to which I have been called" (in Conference Report, October 1943, 18).

Thomas R. Valletta

#14. I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

Peter Jacobson

#15. Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.

Osamu Dazai