Finisher Medal Quotes

#1. Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

Kristin Cashore

#2. Failure is The Way of Success

Chiranjit Paul

#3. every day, not matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

John D. MacDonald

#4. Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Saint Basil

#5. When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

Jim Cooper

#6. My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

Abraham Maslow

#7. If were all blind, we could have been more human.

Thabiso Monkoe

#8. The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Thomas Hardy

#10. A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Andrew Bernstein