Basketball State Championship Quotes

#1. We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Helen Hayes

#2. (By the way, I would not recommend stuffing your pillow with vulture feathers. They're not very comfy.)

Rick Riordan

#3. Love doesn't always have to be spoken out loud.

Jay Crownover

#4. Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression...

Muse

#5. This is Lancre we're talkin' about. If we was men, we'd be talking about layin' down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Marina Warner

#7. It's as though I'm looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, and no matter how far I stretch out my hand, I can't touch them.

Haruki Murakami

#8. The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

Stanley Hauerwas

#9. Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.

Tyra Banks

#10. We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

LeBron James

#11. Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Don Meyer

#12. Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Marco Rubio

#13. We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Ahmed Best

#14. Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.

Clark Ashton Smith

#15. Father, a day upon the throne would be like a day of sitting on a bed of hot coals for me. If my heart has no peace, how can I fulfil your or the people's trust in me? I have seen how quickly time passes, and I know my youth is no different. Please grant me your permission.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#16. Weapons are inauspicious instruments, not the tools of the enlightened. When there is no choice but to use them, it is best to be calm and free from greed, and not celebrate victory. Those who celebrate victory are bloodthirsty, and the bloodthirsty cannot have their way with the world.

Sun Tzu