Basilone Memorial Foundation Quotes

#1. I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds.

Jan Zaveck

#2. You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

Jacques Pepin

#3. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Phil Klay

#4. Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.

Jenny Shipley

#5. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#6. Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, Run away, you poor child.

Wilhelm Grimm

#7. Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie.
"On beer?"
"No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.

Betty Smith

#8. If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

Milan Kundera

#9. Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament?

Jana Deleon

#10. wreck but Trot Nixon's fair ball nestled in his glove.

The New York Times

#11. Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner's furnace to the gold.

J.C. Ryle

#12. I'm a very active person. I'm a big tomboy, throwing around a football, hiking ... all that stuff I love.

Tracy Spiridakos