Gymnastics Vault Quotes

#1. Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

Christopher Fowler

#3. The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Whitman

#5. So I wrote this novel in order to explore distant memories and buried doubts: What would have become of me if I had spent not just one year in the camps, but two or four? If I had been appointed kapo? Could I have struck a friend? Humiliated an old man? And

Elie Wiesel

#6. The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

McKayla Maroney

#7. A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

Clifford Geertz

#8. One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Frederick Lenz

#9. To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

Brian Tracy

#10. The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop's hand, and then they were more eight than eighty, laughing and making jokes together as they strolled toward the terminal, yellow umbrella sheltering above them. Even

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust.
Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Shan Sa

#12. Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Shannon Miller

#13. Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

Laura Whitcomb

#14. The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Fart and you're on your own.

Peter James West

#16. It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Michel Patini

#17. All autumn, the chafe and jar
of nuclear war;
we have talked our extinction to death.
I swim like a minnow
behind my studio window.

Robert Lowell