Jorgensen Quotes

#1. I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

Gary Carter

#2. He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Gilbert Parker

#3. Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#4. A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

Chloe Rattray

#5. Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

John C. Maxwell

#7. Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.

Gwen Jorgensen

#8. You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.

Gwen Jorgensen

#9. How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

Anker Jorgensen

#11. Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

Ellen J. Barrier

#12. Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

#13. Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Primo Levi

#14. You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.

Adoniram Judson

#15. Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Gloria Allred

#16. Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.

Philippe Nericault Destouches